Defying Gravity: Season 1

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Season Details & Credits

ABC | Season Premiere Date: August 2, 2009

Starring: Eyal Podell, Ron Livingston, Malik Yoba

Summary: A group of astronauts headed up by Maddux Donner (Ron Livingston) explore planets during their six-year mission.

Creator: James D. Parriott

Genre(s): Drama, Science Fiction

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Series Overview
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Season 1 Overview
Air Date: August 2, 2009
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14. Defying Gravity: "Behind the Scenes" Featurette
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13. Kiss
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12. Venus
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11. Solitary
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10. Deja Vu
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9. Eve Ate the Apple
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8. Love, Honor, Obey
Air Date: September 13, 2009
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7. Fear
Air Date: September 6, 2009
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6. Bacon
Air Date: August 30, 2009
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5. Rubicon
Air Date: August 23, 2009
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4. H2IK
Air Date: August 16, 2009
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3. Threshold
Air Date: August 9, 2009
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2. Natural Selection
Air Date: August 2, 2009
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1. Pilot
Air Date: August 2, 2009

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Critic Reviews

Paige Wiser

Defying Gravity is taking its time to get off the ground, but I plan to tune in at least until Saturn. Read full review

New York Post Michael Starr

Gravity has an intriguing premise and its pacing--the action cuts back-and-forth between the present and five years in the past--heightens the drama and foreboding. Read full review

Whitney Pastorek

The first ep feels ridiculous; maybe it's the fact that despite being on a futuristic space mission, everyone acts like they're on "Private Practice." Then again, it's summer, and at least this isn't another cop/doctor show. Read full review

Alessandra Stanley

Defying Gravity, about four men and four women sent into orbit with entangled romantic pasts and removable libido-suppressing devices, has high-tech props and a spooky sci-fi mystery, but it is layered in feminine concerns and the mawkishly sentimental pop music that frames plot points on “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Private Practice.” Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Matt Roush

Gravity may be weighted down by cliche, but it’s not without interest. Read full review

Newark Star-Ledger Alan Sepinwall

Defying Gravity--an international production with American actors--feels too slight, or silly, to treat as anything but the cheap, disposable summer programming it is. Read full review

Salon Heather Havrilesky

While I can understand why Parriott and Co. might be tempted to simply swap out the high-pressure hospital setting with a high-pressure intergalactic setting, the stupidity of Defying Gravity really knows no bounds. Read full review

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MiyaG

Aug 3, 2009

It's been pretty intriguing for me somehow..a good one to kill time in this ....nice and hot summer time. Going to outerspace cools me down.

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MichaelS

Sep 1, 2009

Great show It's all about the people.

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pleckstrin

Sep 6, 2010

I love this show! It is so disappointing that ABC never gave it a fair chance. It was broadcast with no advertising fanfare in the middle of the summer when most families are on vacation and not expecting new programming. This was a clever, well-acted show that was perfect family fare. II love this show! It is so disappointing that ABC never gave it a fair chance. It was broadcast with no advertising fanfare in the middle of the summer when most families are on vacation and not expecting new programming. This was a clever, well-acted show that was perfect family fare. I hope that some wrap-up book is offered to fill-in the gaps of the prematurely terminated series.… Expand

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CurtisF

Aug 4, 2009

Its like some did Star Trek: Enterprise without all the stupid Star Trek stuff. Im stoked for Scifi on network.

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MunnyR

Aug 5, 2009

Great first 2 episodes but seriously keep the fake hindu religious stuff out plzzzzzz!

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pythag0ras

Jul 5, 2016

This show would be good if they would stick with the main story line and stop flashing back to before they launched. literally 50% of each episode is all flashback filler.

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KellyK

Aug 29, 2009

Unrealistic, horrible script, horrible stereotypical characters, the voyage makes no sense without a continuity or information of what area they are in and the progress of their voyage. It is worse than greys anatomy but they are all enclosed in a small capsule. And the team that is Unrealistic, horrible script, horrible stereotypical characters, the voyage makes no sense without a continuity or information of what area they are in and the progress of their voyage. It is worse than greys anatomy but they are all enclosed in a small capsule. And the team that is selected sound nothing and their career lines have nothing to do with astronauts on an epic journey. It must have been written by hormonal women after watching an episode of star trek and even worse is the whole unprofessional stand of the crew and the mystery section in the aircraft !!! A zero is too high of a rating .... !!!… Expand

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