It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

I wasted 15 minutes on this glory infested rubbish.Twice!Personally I could not get past the first half of the first episode. Like, when was something going to happen?Elon Musk can do what he wants with his money, but I wan/t no more to do with this.Was this some kind of flash advert?

First of all, of course is an advertisement for Musk, NASA and whatever else, what content isn't these days? Ya know, it's all about the money!Now, I enjoyed the real part of the show and was extremely disappointed by the "drama" part. The real part is nice, like a SciFi with real grown up people who share their dreams, definitely not doable though at least in the next hundreds of years. Just imagine the human testing it needs. I'm not going to even write an idea on the engineering part, that is an entirely different constellation of unknown data and dangerous small details. It's a mess and we're not there yet technologically speaking. But why the craziness in the drama part? OK 15 or 25 years in the future humanity will solve some stuff like a better suit to move in the space (although is a stretch) or fast transmissions between Mars and Earth. But why not imagine something closer to reality? I mean are you kidding me, they didn't plan for the worst that can happen on the basic life needs? "Oh we get money, let's send more and more rockets and people there"? What kind of mad man thought about this? And if you decide to make a character go nuts why not someone who is believable? That middle aged pedo-bear face with a crazy look obsessed with little plants? That's not a professional botanist, is a nightmare waiting to happen, I saw it after 2 seconds looking at that guy. Really predictable.Anyway, nice show but better take out the "real" part because that is a dream that will never happen. Even in 50 years we're still gonna be here killing each other and spending billions each year on guns and other crap...

I've now seen all 6 episodes. The last 3 are somewhat better than the first. Good marks on the attempt to be scientifically accurate, some well done documentary, and (overall) a good attempt at rallying a new generation around an important next step for humanity. However, the lack of science and engineering d-e-t-a-i-l was frustrating. Too much time was spent with philosophical introspection. The 'frictional' elements were accurate but filled too much time. Money issues will definitely conflict with science, groups will have difficulty being cooped up for such a long period of time, someone will go nuts, etc. Not the important part of the story for me. The Martian captured the day to day urgency of survival much more dramatically. Technology and science is our means of surviving such a mission. Andy Weir gave us the engineering and scientific detail that made this gritty and real. "Mars" never quite gets to this level.I've just read Gene Kranz "Failure is Not an Option", and am halfway through Chris Kraft's "Flight". Throughout those Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions -- with only a couple of exceptions -- every single mission was a string of one life threatening engineering problem after another with Mission Control engineers and Astronauts cooperating to prioritize the problems, solve the major ones, work- around the minor ones. Some of these the public knew about. Many they did not. The reality of space flight is the continual solution of engineering and scientific problems. Kranz gives you detail. Weir gives you detail. Detail is what makes drama believable.

I'll just cut to the chase, this is one of the WORST of television I've ever seen. It's like the Western version of those ridiculous Bollywood movies people laugh about. About 99% of the fictitious story consists of overused, disgusting, cringe-inducing cliché scenes. And I'm not even exaggerating. There is almost like 0% originality in the dialogues or minor events happening. Honestly, I'm not exaggerating, I'm actually shocked, how can a non-mentally- handicapped team of writers come up with a script where every single sentence is extremely banal and cringe-worthy. Of course, there are a few positive things such as the non- fictitious parts with the actual science and interviews, as well as the CGI. Except for some scenes when they film Mars on Earth and it looks absolutely fake and non-believable. If you don't know how to mimic lower gravity, at least slow down the play speed of those scenes so that it doesn't look like lost hikers in a cave.But generally, every single moment of the 2033 made me cringe. I actually think Neil Breen movies are better written and directed in the sense of actor play. The actors kinda sucked, but it wasn't that bad, except for the Asian lady who just annoyed the hell out of me with her fake and stupid slow-talking, and whining about her cliché emotions. Hello, no one cares about a new, undeveloped, unlikable, annoying character's banal feelings towards her sister.Don't let lazy interns write your script and make your series.I really could't watch this without a strong unease, but try and see how it is if you can handle it.