Defying Gravity is nice. The problem is that today we have a lot of very good options... But not that much on science fiction, so if you are looking for the genre maybe you gonna be satisfied. The show have good ideas, is focused on character development and use time lines very well. The problem is the poor execution. Visual effects do not ruin the show, but are very simple. The lack of resources for better effects create some problems with physics and chemistry. But the biggest problem is the casting and the dialogues. The actors are good, but many of them are misplaced. Ron Livingston is an excellent actor, but his character is lame and just don't fit him. Laura Harris try hard, but her character is supposed to be a little insecure and she simply don't deliver it, working much better when she need to show confidence. Also, the idea behind the dialogues are always fine, but the dialogues never work. I don't know if the actors improvise too much or too little, but it end up sounded artificial. But even a modest Sci-Fi is rare to find, so if you like the genre you can bet on this one.

It revolves around religious themes of the value of faith, spiritual testing, redemption, and limits of science. Still, it definitely reached out to us in the world of science, getting the look right, and either getting the details right or explaining them away. It even accurately depicted a lot of the spirit of exploration, curiosity, and such. It looked really good. I wanted to be there, with them.Good on the producers, a multi-national effort. I have often imagined reaching out for a conciliation to the other camp, though I have lost faith that it could happen.The series revolves around a powerful mystery that brings out the best and worst in humans. That is a central theme of both science and religion, so it is a good choice for a conciliation.But the final episode was by far the most blatant, with many scientists discussing the Trials of Job as though it was fact. Is that why, or when, it was cancelled?Although it plainly wanted to go farther, the ending was not too abrupt. It had the sense of finality that a book in a series would have.

My first impressions of this show are very conflicted. On the one hand, it's a real joy to be watching a near-future space exploration show with mostly realistic hardware. Seriously: Antares is maybe one of the best thought-out deep-space exploration vessels depicted on film or TV. On the other hand, the two episodes I watched were more about the tawdry personal lives of the astronauts than about space exploration.There's a long tradition of hard sci-fi being used as a backdrop for psychological exploration, and although there's a faint note of that in this show too, it's no "2001" or "Solaris". However, some time is devoted to astronauts dwelling on and having to come to terms with past decisions.Against all that, I was interested to learn that the show had been pitched as "Gray's Anatomy in Space", because that's more or less how it plays out. I really, really didn't care who was bedding whom though, I just wanted to see how the mission played out.As a final hook, it becomes evident very early on that there's something aboard the Antares that mission control on earth knows about and the crew do not. I can't wait to find out more! :)

This show could have been really great if the writers were more creative and have kept focus on the six-year mission through the solar system instead of the the extremely boring and absolutely uninteresting flashbacks. It's a mission through the solar system, obviously there must be something more interesting going on to tell than the pathetic frustrations of that horrible group of astronauts. The show looks good, it has a great art direction, it's really well produced and most actors are trying to do their job, but, unfortunately it's terribly hollow, uncreative and awfully written. More decent scenes of a solar system adventure and less flashbacks and lame crying babies drama, might have saved this series.