{"id":24747,"date":"2025-04-27T22:05:41","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T02:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=24747"},"modified":"2025-04-27T22:36:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T02:36:41","slug":"constellation-season-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/constellation-season-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Constellation (season 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;You forget how Earth smells.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Constellation<\/strong> season 1, aired in 2024<\/p>\n<p>Jo is on the International Space Station when something hits it, causing objects to scatter and a fire to break out. They were just starting to run an experiment about a new state of matter, and it was having some success. But with oxygen running low, the other three astronauts return to Earth in a module that only fits three. Jo stays behind to try to get another module in good enough shape to return to her husband and daughter.<\/p>\n<p>This show is about what happens when there&#8217;s a parallel universe but hardly anyone knows it. It&#8217;s about people who feel it&#8217;s OK to cover up the truth and people who don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>I like how Alice trusts her mother enough to stay with her but is worried enough to call her father.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s mostly great but there were a small number of things that didn&#8217;t make sense, like the very last scene. Also, one person switched bodies and other people didn&#8217;t. The conclusion is a bit unsatisfying, although a season 2 might have alleviated that.<\/p>\n<p>There was only one season.<\/p>\n<p>Noomi Rapace will convince you she has the skills needed to be an astronaut.<\/p>\n<p>Stars Jonathan Banks, James D&#8217;Arcy, and Barbara Sukowa.<\/p>\n<p>Created by Peter Harness (writer on <strong>Jonathan Strange &amp; Mr Norrell<\/strong>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;You forget how Earth smells.&#8221; Constellation season 1, aired in 2024 Jo is on the International Space Station when something hits it, causing objects to scatter and a fire to break out. They were just starting to run an experiment about a new state of matter, and it was having some success. But with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[5,8,11],"class_list":["post-24747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-shows","tag-review","tag-science-fiction","tag-tv-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24747"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24768,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24747\/revisions\/24768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}