8th June, 2021.
It’s officially official.
It’s getting late.
But I’ve just done two things, TV related, today.
First? I managed to sell off my blu-ray copy of the Doctor Who Collection Season 10 box set to the Romford branch of CeX: and got what I believe to be a reasonable price for it.
That — effectively — reduces the price I paid for it.
So, no complaints, there, then.
The other bit of TV related stuff?
I’ve finally managed to catch the last episode of For All Mankind’s second season. I’ll tell you more about that, tomorrow night.
9th June, 2021.
Episode 10 — The Grey — opens in Mission Control in Houston: with two of the staff happily gossiping … until one notices the Ops section of Jamestown base is — apparently — depressurising.
The pair are reassured by Commander Rossi (Scott Michael Campbell): reassuring Mission Control everything is OK, and that the apparent problem is caused by some instrument faults.
However? Rossi’s being held by the Russians: who are demanding the release of the defector, Rolan Baranov (Alexander Sokovikov).
Post titles?
Post titles, the scene shifts to the joint SeaDragon 17/Pathfinder 1 flight. Ed (Joel Kinnaman) is distracted by both his divorce, and crossing the lunar blockade.
Back at ground control? Margo, Ellen and Molly, (Wren Schmidt, Jodi Balfour and Sonya Walger) are discussing the Jamestown situation … and whether to bring the Apollo/Soyuz* mission back to Earth.
Danielle Poole (Krys Marshall), in charge of the US end of the Mission? Is getting increasingly frustrated by constant delay.
On Jamestown, itself? Gordo and Tracy (Michael Roman and Sarah Jones) are stuck in the Galley: with no way to get out.
They can only watch as US Marines try to rescue Commander Rossi: a rescue that leads to shootings, a death … and stray bullets hitting the chips that control the Jamestown base reactors.
It’s only when Gordo figures out a way to communicate with Mission Control, with a decommissioned aerial, that he and Tracey find out the truth.
The only way to stop a nuclear meltdown on the moon is for someone to go outside Jamestown Base to reboot the reactor’s coolant system.
The only candidates are Gordo and Tracey.
They only have 15 seconds to do the job.
There’s no spacesuits for them …
This could get tricky …
~≈Á≈~
Now … have I seen a good episode?
A good finale?
A good series?
Yes, we have both a a good episode, and a good finale.
The Grey tells us a thriller of a story: with genuine moments of tension and drama, with moments of hazard … and with a tragedy at the end.
Frankly … ?
The Grey is both a fantastic episode, a fantastic finale … and a great way to close the second series.
And one that — with Nirvana’s Come As You Are playing over a long shot of a boot on Mars — is telling us there‘s going to be a series three?
Well …
The Grey gives us something to look forward to.
* Poole’s mission is modelled on the real-world mission: that took place in 1975. I was seven, at the time: and have dim memories of fuzzy TV footage.
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