Into the Abyss
- Episode aired Nov 15, 2019
- TV-MA
- 1h 2m
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8.5/10
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Ed and the crew change Apollo 15's landing site after lunar ice is detected.Ed and the crew change Apollo 15's landing site after lunar ice is detected.Ed and the crew change Apollo 15's landing site after lunar ice is detected.
Shantel VanSanten
- Karen Baldwin
- (as Shantel Vansanten)
Michael Harney
- Jack Broadstreet
- (as Michael J. Harney)
Daniel Robbins
- Hank Poppen
- (as Daniel Scott Robbins)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaWhen asked how she felt orbiting the moon, Molly's description of her impressions of Earth from space that "...it's hard to believe that everyone I've ever known, every country, every civilization is contained in that tiny blue and white ball" is a paraphrase of Carl Sagan's description in his book Pale Blue Dot of the photo taken by Voyager 1 that looked back at Earth from 4 billion miles away.
- GoofsClayton Poole says he was with the 21st Infantry Regiment, but is wearing the shoulder patch of the 196th Infantry Brigade.
- Quotes
Frank Sedgewick: Changing a landing site mid-flight? It's dangerous and stupid. I love it.
- ConnectionsFeatures Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1967)
- SoundtracksMoonage Daydream
Written and Performed by David Bowie
Featured review
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The dual stories, of Ed and Molly and Karen and Wayne, is a wonderful way of showing how mission and family both face insurmountable pressure as they try to do their part. Wayne's need for connection and for someone else who feels the same as him becomes the episode's Earth-driven story. He's rightly terrified as Molly ascends to greatness, and using his art as therapy and needing Karen as a someone to bounce off of allows for this very human story of the struggle of the unknown, and how terrifying that can be. Karen's arc throughout the episode is one of discovering her prejudices while still resisting the urge to be more accepting. It's hard to tell if this is her place in society dictating her disapproval of so much throughout the episode, or if this is her way of coping with the difficulties of endlessly worrying about Ed. When Karen cracks a little, it becomes a little clearer it's the latter, and that there's more than we're seeing. This part of the episode becomes a nice little window into how the spouses cope with the stress placed on their families. Karen needed Wayne's more open and frank lifestyle in order to shake free of her more reserved life, and it's an idealistic ending that they both come out on the same side by the end of the episode. The moon mission is rife with small decisions leaving the chance for large impact. The episode underlines at every chance how difficult these deviations are, but that fortune favors the bold. Molly's initial resistance for a change of landing venue, and for her to be the one pushing to go for broke in the search for ice, is a great indicator that once that precipice of challenge is crossed, Molly is all in on delivering on their promise of making this mission count.
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- Runtime1 hour 2 minutes
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- 2.00 : 1
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