What got me interested in watching this show was the idea that it involved the dawn of rocketry in the US in the 1930s. Based on that, what could be more cool? I mean ... von Braun, the creation of JPL, the Nazis, the start of WWII, launchpads, explosions ... and the stories you could tell!
Well ... it's not really about that. The rockets are actually the very, very slow background story. It's more about the life of Jack Parsons (the lead character), his wife and circle of people around him that become part of an intense new-age type cult. It's not the kind where you're forced to stay in it, but the kind with unusual sexual rituals and beliefs for the times.
Interestingly - these are actually based on real people ... cult and all. It's amusing to watch all the visuals of what's going on in their mind as they struggle with core questions of life. It's even cool to see Parsons believe he's manifesting the rocket project forward.
However, I'm in it for the rocket story. I'll put up with the cultist story-telling for a little longer, but not sure how long I'll last. It turns out that the show based on a book about Parson's cultist life ... but I do hope the show expands beyond that ... way beyond that.
Well ... it's not really about that. The rockets are actually the very, very slow background story. It's more about the life of Jack Parsons (the lead character), his wife and circle of people around him that become part of an intense new-age type cult. It's not the kind where you're forced to stay in it, but the kind with unusual sexual rituals and beliefs for the times.
Interestingly - these are actually based on real people ... cult and all. It's amusing to watch all the visuals of what's going on in their mind as they struggle with core questions of life. It's even cool to see Parsons believe he's manifesting the rocket project forward.
However, I'm in it for the rocket story. I'll put up with the cultist story-telling for a little longer, but not sure how long I'll last. It turns out that the show based on a book about Parson's cultist life ... but I do hope the show expands beyond that ... way beyond that.