“The Astronaut Wives Club,” can’t make its mind up if it would like to be a critical, nuanced fact-based drama concerning the spouses associated with the Mercury Seven astronauts, or “The genuine Housewives of Cape Canaveral.”
Fortunately, there’s enough genuine drama in the show, premiering Thursday, June 18, to counterbalance its cheaper moments.
The show is made by Stephanie Savage through the book “The Astronaut Wives Club: A True Story” by Lily Koppel and it is on the basis of the genuine women that had been hitched towards the nation’s original seven astronauts. (mehr …)