I am in love with this show. I started catching up on HULU and can't wait to watch it on TV now that I am caught up. Each family has their own stuff they are dealing with and it makes the show amazing. The wives and husbands are amazing and it is my favorite show. I highly recommend it! At first of course it starts off with questions that the viewer may have, I know I didn't understand some things but of course this show doesn't disappoint! It goes on and tells you the secrets and later on you see marriages building stronger together and supporting each others careers. It's also amazing to see how each wife has their ambition and how it is during this era and what wives were expected to do and how their husbands and society react to them making a name for themselves.

Amazing show! What I like most about it is the historical background of it all. From Women's Rights to African American Civil Rights and to the assassination of JFK. Hearing about the stories behind the scenes of great contributors to society, astronauts, makes for a great TV show. A lot of my shows have been canceled on TV and really hope this one sticks. I love all the characters and the era it takes place. A lot was happening in the country in the 1960s and I love that we get to see it play out on TV again. There aren't too many shows nowadays that has captured this point in time and I think it's doing an amazing job! The scandal, the drama, the politics of it all is what makes this show worth watching. It's just not a show about women and their Plesantville lives.

If you're drawn to this show in hope of seeing brave men face & overcome the incredible danger & challenge of the burgeoning space program, think again! This show strictly adheres to the non-adventures of those women who married these pioneers.We see some of the wives face the perilous challenge of fashion & others being an absolute hindrance to the space program by displaying a reprehensible attitude toward their spouse. The worst attitude (perhaps as a result of poor mental or menstrual health) is exhibited by Trudy (played by Odette Annable). She appears to be under the delusion that simply by being married to one of these gallant men makes her too an Astronaut. Oh! Women! Her husband Gordon (played by Bret Harrison) is an absolute saint. On a more serious note, the storyline of Trudy & Gordon reveals the hardship some men had to endure at that time due to the stigma of divorce. Many men had to put up with women who were abhorrent for fear of being labelled a marriage failure. At the time society expected men to control their women, however, as modern science has proved, that task is near impossible due to the loopy gene present in all females.Is "The Astronaut Wives Club" any good? Well, due to the afore mentioned spotlight placed on certain social hardships many men had to suffer, I'll say yes! In exposing the erratic female conduct many of these men had to face, on top of the challenges of space, we truly know how great these men were.*Update: Hay! Guys & gals, why all the negative marks on my review? Que pasa people.

I just caught the first episode of this limited summer series last night which a friend referred to as "Desperate Housewives In Space"! LOL I never really watched DH, so not sure I can compare the two. The series is based on Lily Koppel's book, "The Astronaut Wives Club: A True Story." It 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. I like this show so far. It's well casted, well acted and has some decent writing. In fact, so far it reminds me of one of my all-time fav. movies, "The Right Stuff"- which this is basically that same story from the point of view of the wives-as far as the Mercury space program anyways. I don't recognize too many of the actresses playing the wives, but do recall a few of the actors playing the astronauts like Desmond Harrington ("Dexter") as Alan Shepherd and Bret Harrison ("The Loop") as Gordon Cooper. I see too this show was originally going to be a regular series in the 2013-14 television season, but was held back to re-tool-?? Well, anyhoo, so far I'm hooked, and it will be an interesting watch the rest of the summer...