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Astronaut Jo (Noomi Rapace) with daughter Alice (Davina Coleman)
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Constellation
Michelle MacLaren, Oliver Hirschbiegel, Joseph Cedar
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WHAT kind of life would you rather have: one filled with ecstatic highs and dizzying lows, or one of middling satisfaction, free from disappointment?
I suspect most astronauts would opt for the former, while risk-averse normies like me plump for the latter. I ask because I find myself fixated on a series about an astronaut, a show of such varying quality that it frustrated and delighted me by turns.
Constellation, an eight-parter…