EPISODE
The Astronaut Wives Club - Season 1
Based on Lily Koppels best-selling titular novel, which tells the story of the women who stood beside some of the astronauts in America';;;;;;;;;;;s past, during the height of the race to to the moon.
24 March 1984, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
6 April 1982, Portland, Oregon, USA
14 November 1949, Amory, Mississippi, USA
1980, Westminster, London, England, UK
June 23, 2015
Space, big secrets, ambition -- and a clichéd sisterhood.
June 19, 2015
Now that there is an actual Mad Men void to be filled, The Astronaut Wives Club might attract a few mourners desperate to continue wallowing in a well-dressed, pre-feminist America. For the rest of us, the show has little to offer.
June 16, 2015
The Astronaut Wives Club is a black hole of monotonous characters and stale writing and does absolutely nothing to represent the teetering excitement and dread that the show's true-life events caused across the world.
June 15, 2015
The Astronaut Wives Club turns out to be pretty fun stuff, an engaging drama with a bit of soap and a sheen of history.
June 23, 2015
It wouldn't be the last time a summer show on network TV won viewers over with modest ambitions and likeable characters.
June 19, 2015
Though it doesn't fly us to the moon, the series is a good space filler in the early summer doldrums.
June 12, 2015
What's supposed to be fueling this vehicle is a formula mixing historical drama and soap. But without more potent storytelling, "The Astronaut Wives Club" only can reach a limited orbit.
June 18, 2015
TV viewers looking for an entertaining, retro-cool soap opera should certainly sample the series, a lively mixture of relationship drama and female bonding.
June 18, 2015
The biggest culprit is the stilted writing.
