EPISODE
Based on Lily Koppels best-selling titular novel, which tells the story of the women who stood beside some of the astronauts in America';;;;;;;;;;;s past, during the height of the race to to the moon.
28 September 1982, Jerusalem, Israel
16 June 1949, Chicago, Illinois, USA
29 July 1964, Great Falls, Montana, USA
19 February 1987, Australia
June 15, 2015
The Astronaut Wives Club turns out to be pretty fun stuff, an engaging drama with a bit of soap and a sheen of history.
June 19, 2015
Though it doesn't fly us to the moon, the series is a good space filler in the early summer doldrums.
June 18, 2015
The biggest culprit is the stilted writing.
June 23, 2015
It wouldn't be the last time a summer show on network TV won viewers over with modest ambitions and likeable characters.
June 18, 2015
TV viewers looking for an entertaining, retro-cool soap opera should certainly sample the series, a lively mixture of relationship drama and female bonding.
June 23, 2015
Space, big secrets, ambition -- and a clichéd sisterhood.
June 12, 2015
What's supposed to be fueling this vehicle is a formula mixing historical drama and soap. But without more potent storytelling, "The Astronaut Wives Club" only can reach a limited orbit.
June 19, 2015
Now that there is an actual Mad Men void to be filled, The Astronaut Wives Club might attract a few mourners desperate to continue wallowing in a well-dressed, pre-feminist America. For the rest of us, the show has little to offer.
June 16, 2015
The Astronaut Wives Club is a black hole of monotonous characters and stale writing and does absolutely nothing to represent the teetering excitement and dread that the show's true-life events caused across the world.
