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The Right Stuff

★ 6.8 5K votes 2020–2020 1 season · 8 episodes Canceled Disney+
Real historyReal historical events and figures woven into the story.This show: 8/10Period pieceSet meaningfully in a past era.This show: 8/10Ensemble castMany characters carrying equal weight.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Patrick J. AdamsJake McDormanColin O'DonoghueEloise MumfordJames LaffertyNora Zehetner
Written by
Mark Lafferty
Starring
Patrick J. AdamsJake McDormanColin O'DonoghueEloise MumfordJames LaffertyNora Zehetner
Written by
Mark Lafferty
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About

"Glossy soap opera hiding inside a space race"

Based on Tom Wolfe's book, this limited series follows the seven military pilots chosen as America's first astronauts in the late 1950s, thrust into fame as NASA races the Soviets to space. It mixes clean-cut heroics with the messier reality of marriages, rivalries, and egos under a media spotlight. The tone is glossy and handsome, more soap opera than daredevil thriller, moving at a measured, character-driven pace. It works best as a polished ensemble drama about ambition and image rather than a white-knuckle account of spaceflight risk.

Watch it for

the ensemble chemistry among the Mercury Seven as fame and rivalry test their friendships.

Maybe skip if

you want the grittier, funnier swagger of the 1983 film rather than polished melodrama.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

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Season 12020
7.32K86h 4m
The first season starts at the height of the Cold War. To combat a national sentiment of fear and decline, the U.S. government conceives of NASA’s Project Mercury, igniting a space race with the Soviets and making instant celebrities of a handful of the military’s adrenaline-fueled test pilots.
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
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36944 min
▶2Goodies7.4
28843 min
▶3Single Combat Warrior7.2
25251 min
▶4Advent7.1
22948 min
▶5The Kona Kai Séance7.4
21245 min
▶6Vostok7.2
19544 min
▶7Ziggurat7.3
18444 min
▶8Flight7.6
19145 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Patrick J. Adams John Glenn
Jake McDorman Alan Shepard
Colin O'Donoghue Gordon Cooper
Eloise Mumford Trudy Cooper
James Lafferty Scott Carpenter
Nora Zehetner Annie Glenn
Eric Ladin Chris Kraft
Patrick Fischler Bob Gilruth
Aaron Staton Wally Schirra
Michael Trotter Gus Grissom

Crew

Mark Lafferty

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