![]() The tradeoff is a requirement to sustain that wholesome image. This latest “The Right Stuff” is also, in some respects, a media story, since the astronauts made a deal with Life magazine, which branded them heroes and sold the romance and patriotism surrounding the space program and NASA for fun and profit. ![]() “It’s not my world down here,” Glenn, who genuinely loves his wife, says amid the latenight pool parties and carousing. Adams), a boy scout and natural politician, ill-at-ease with the live-fast, party-hard lifestyles of his comrades, who mostly behave like frat boys on spring break. In addition, the structure sets up a defining struggle between Alan Shepard (Jake McDorman), a philandering playboy, and John Glenn (“Suits’” Patrick J. Yet with more time to fill, the series is as much about their personal lives as their escape-the-bonds-of-Earth exploits. Unlike the 1983 movie adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s book – which deftly cut between the celebrated astronauts and the unheralded exploits of test pilot Chuck Yeager – the focus here is squarely on the former. What it loses in momentum, however, this Disney+ series gains in its characterizations, offering a satisfying voyage back into the stories of the men at the center of the Mercury 7 space program, as well as the women that loved and/or endured them. Expanded into an eight-hour series, “The Right Stuff” doesn’t feel the need for speed. ![]()
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