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Annoying to the extreme. Thick with drama and emotion, which is exactly how people are NOT. Good writers (and actors) know that emotion is hidden. Many space titles have gotten this exactly right, and should have served to inform the writers of Away.

This is what romance novelists might get if they tried to write sci-fi.

The people Away has selected to go on the first mission to Mars are precisely NOT like the people that would be sent... and suffers from the same character errors that Prometheus had... namely, sending losers on a massive, important mission.

Real astronauts are cool as cucumbers. On ice. Floating in a liquid nitrogen bath. Absolutely unflappable. John Glenn said of Neil Armstrong that he was chosen to command the first mission to the moon based on one criteria... that he was the most able to toss the weight of the world off his shoulders and do the job. That he had faced death so many times, and came out on top that he was literally used to it.

These kind of people are fascinating... but Away writers gave us drama you might expect from reruns of Dallas.

And the direction... incompetent. Shows like this need expert technical advisors on set at all times... to prevent ridiculous things like having the actors half floating around the room on the moon. It's a distraction that competes with the story as you find yourself asking "what the hell are they doing?"

Perhaps the creative talent, like the astronauts on Away, are all chosen by what color their skin is, instead of ability.

This show feels like it was put together by committee.