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  • Oct 9, 2020
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  • Oct 9, 2020
The Right Stuff (2020)

Summary NASA's Bob Gilruth (Patrick Fischler) and Chris Kraft (Eric Ladin) select seven men: John Glenn (Patrick J. Adams), Alan Shepard (Jake McDorman), Captain Gordo Cooper (Colin O’Donoghue), Wally Schirra (Aaron Staton), Scott Carpenter (James Lafferty), Deke Slayton (Micah Stock), and Gus Grissom (Michael Trotter), to become the first Ameri...

  • Disney+
  • Oct 9, 2020
  • Disney+
  • Oct 9, 2020
The Right Stuff (2020)
Season 1
Season Premiere: Oct 9, 2020
Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 22 Critic Reviews
61
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 12 User Ratings
5.8
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Summary NASA's Bob Gilruth (Patrick Fischler) and Chris Kraft (Eric Ladin) select seven men: John Glenn (Patrick J. Adams), Alan Shepard (Jake McDorman), Captain Gordo Cooper (Colin O’Donoghue), Wally Schirra (Aaron Staton), Scott Carpenter (James Lafferty), Deke Slayton (Micah Stock), and Gus Grissom (Michael Trotter), to become the first Ameri...

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Episode 1 • Oct 9, 2020
Sierra Hotel
Chris Kraft and his team were assigned to select the first seven astronauts for the United States Mercury program out of over 100 highly capable applicants.
Episode 2 • Oct 9, 2020
Goodies
The Mercury 7 become aware of their instant fame and the pitfalls that come with it.
Episode 3 • Oct 16, 2020
Single Combat Warrior
After mysterious bouts of vertigo, Shepard turns to Dee O'Hara to help him. Meanwhile, Cocoa Beach has transformed from a ghost town to a perpetual party. Gordo finds himself tempted by another woman.
Episode 4 • Oct 23, 2020
Advent
As 1960 approaches, a humiliating rocket launch throws the future of NASA into question.
Episode 5 • Oct 30, 2020
The Kona Kai Séance
An indiscretion leads to a greater conflict that could determine who will be chosen first.
Episode 6 • Nov 6, 2020
Vostok
With JFK now in office, NASA finds itself under scrutiny, and Shepard's flight is delayed.
Episode 7 • Nov 13, 2020
Ziggurat
Weather endangers Shepard's flight, as tensions between him and Glenn hit a breaking point.
Episode 8 • Nov 20, 2020
Flight

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 22 Critic Reviews
61
45% Positive
10 Reviews
55% Mixed
12 Reviews
0% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 22 Critic Reviews
61
45% Positive
10 Reviews
55% Mixed
12 Reviews
0% Negative
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100
Oct 6, 2020
Nothing feels gratuitous and there isn’t anything even remotely shocking. It’s just more mature and well rounded; these characters are messy and flawed and full of contradictions, and the show isn’t afraid to engage with those less pleasant aspects of their lives. As a dramatic series, it’s phenomenal; it’s frequently touching and just as thrilling.
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75
Oct 7, 2020
While it would be next to impossible to duplicate the shining brilliance of Philip Kaufman’s 1983 theatrical adaptation of the same material (IMHO the best astronaut movie ever made), show creator Mark Lafferty has delivered a visually striking, well-acted period piece that plays like “Mad Men: The Flyboys Edition.”
By Richard Roeper FULL REVIEW

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58% Positive
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8% Mixed
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33% Negative
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58% Positive
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8% Mixed
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33% Negative
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68
Oct 9, 2020
We’ve seen the story of The Right Stuff before, but even if we hadn’t, it’s 2020 and Google plus a quick trip to Wikipedia will tell you everything you need to know. But despite these obstacles, the eight-episode series—seeped in its era much the same way Mad Men was—is more often than not a compelling, inspirational drama that does its best to command our attention. ... I’m just not sure it’s a story that needed to be told again.
By Allison Shoemaker FULL REVIEW
60
Oct 8, 2020
[The actors are] all perfectly fine, and Adams and McDorman are at times, better than fine. The rest of the cast is solid, with good work from actresses who play the all-too-often long-suffering wives of the Mercury Seven. ... “The Right Stuff” feels like a band playing the hits we’ve already heard way too many times already.
By Kristi Turnquist FULL REVIEW
50
Oct 9, 2020
Though it rarely achieves electrifying liftoff in the five episodes available for review, what resonated most is a character study of straitlaced den father John Glenn (a solid Patrick J. Adams). [12 - 25 Oct 2020, p.9]
By Matt Roush FULL REVIEW
40
Oct 9, 2020
This series plays like a quickly-written nostalgia trip and nothing more.
By Joel Keller FULL REVIEW
40
Oct 8, 2020
“The Right Stuff” is not bad, or even boring, just thin and unconvincing. Its budget shows, in the negative sense, and its best points are to be found here and there in small things — individual performances, selected exchanges and assorted old gewgaws and gadgets that decorate the screen.
By Robert Lloyd FULL REVIEW
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