For All Mankind (TV Series) The Weight (2021) User Reviews

Don't be cruel to a heart that's true

[bosporan · 8/10 · 19 May 2022]

Tracy finds being a celebrity on the moon more difficult than she anticipated and others are resentful. Gordo and Ed are in trouble following their escapades last time and Molly shows leadership in her own inimitable style.

Shantel VanSanten again puts in a fine performance as Karen coping with Ed's reckless misbehaviour.

More Soap Opera; Makes a Non-Apple Remote Mandatory

[flash-104 · 6/10 · 20 March 2021]

For a show categorized as science fiction, this has far too much resemblance to daytime network TV. I couldn't have endured it without buying a non-Apple remote, which has a Skip button. The closest things to excitement were two disciplinary hearings, only one of which I could bear not to skip, and the summarization of a bureaucratic document (a good use for the pause button). A low point was an unsuccessful attempt to quit smoking; one of the two attempts to cut down on alcohol wasn't too bad, accompanied as it was by an attempt to practice for claustrophobia.

The show could've used a good military advisor

[SleeplessVirus · 8/10 · 15 February 2024]

There are two plot points in this episode that I don't believe are realistic. Ed and Gordo almost losing their jobs because of the dogfight and Tracy Stevens being treated as an inexperienced astronaut when she's on the moon. In episode four, Ed has to bail out of his trainer jet at the end of a simulated dogfight against Gordo. In this episode, we see the reaction of Thomas Payne, Margot, Madison, and Molly Cobb and they don't seem to be based on reality. Fighter pilots have to maintain their skill and dogfighting practice against each other is the best way to maintain those skills A buddy of mine a retired F18 pilot told me that they would frequently dogfight the Air Force pilots from a nearby Air Force Base. Also, Ed is an admiral. He's not a young Navy lieutenant anymore. Nobody would talk to an admiral like that over an airplane. The treatment of Tracy Stevens seems ludicrous. Making her the Linus because she's never been to the moon. She's a pioneer of women in space , who is responsible one of the most heroic acts in the shows universe. The character Nick Corrado, who is the Linus who is in high school when she risks her own life, and saved Molly Cobbs life in space would continue to be the Linus, or they would just stop the Linus nonsense.

Heart is the true

[moviesfilmsreviewsinc · 10/10 · 12 August 2022]

The series' women steal the show in For All Mankind Season 2 Episode 5, "The Weight," an hour that deftly illustrates the complex, difficult, and often painfully performative ways that they must navigate the world they've chosen to live in. Molly's boys' club-style decision to let Ed and Gordo off the hook for wrecking an expensive plane and risking their lives sorry to anyone who really thought that cliffhanger last week was ever going to be a real thing - because they're just pilots who need risk and danger or whatever feels like a choice made by someone still desperate to prove she's one of the boys herself, and just like they are. At the Baldwin house, Karen is determined to prove that she's emotionally tough enough to survive another, likely several-years-long stretch, of not knowing whether Ed will come home after any given mission. Last week, she's basically the person who pushed him to give himself the command of Pathfinder, but here she seems to be struggling with second thoughts. Ellen reconnects with the former Outpost bartender - and her former girlfriend Pam Horton, who's back in town on a book tour in support of her new poetry anthology. (Which, honestly, is a future I kind of love for her.) The pair hook up again because, of course, they do but their encounter really serves to highlight how empty Ellen's life has become outside of her space duties. She's still living a lie, while Pam has moved on entirely changing careers, getting published, living as an out lesbian in a way that Ellen clearly has never imagined for herself. Whether her tryst with her ex will push Ellen toward claiming more space in her own life for herself than she's been allowed thus far is unclear, but we can always hope, right? Truly I find this character so compelling, but her constant willingness to make herself small for others is simultaneously frustrating and deeply understandable. The bulk of this episode, however, is centered around Tracy Stevens who finally, finally achieves her lifelong dream of making it to the moon. Only to find out that it's not the panacea to her problems she'd always assumed it would be.

Ugh

[Michaeljefferygilbert · 3/10 · 22 March 2021]

The astronauts' lack of professionalism threatens the show's credibility. Makes suspending disbelief too difficult at times.