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ABC’s The Astronaut Wives Club: The Story of the Women Behind the First Astronauts

The race for space was fought in high heels? Can you fight a race? *sigh*

I want to like this show. I really do. The Astronaut Wives Club is an upcoming limited event television series based on the book of the same name by Lily Koppel, and it tells the story of the wives of the first astronauts: the celebrity they navigated, the secrets they kept, the lives they and their husbands lived. That’s all stuff I’m very interested in. Also, period costumes. Also, female leads. Also-also, an element of soapiness that isn’t often associated with the lives of astronauts (we forget that at one time, astronauts and pilots were pretty much rock stars).

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That all seems pretty cool, right?

But maybe the soapiness is too soapy? And that tagline: The race for space was fought in high heels. GROAN. I mean, you can’t fight a race. You can run one, though. And is that really the message of the show? Women contributed by looking super-cute. I mean, at the time, it’s likely that was important, but is that the message of the show? I just…I dunno.

What do you think? Will you be watching The Astronaut Wives Club when it premieres June 18?

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Teresa Jusino (she/her) is a native New Yorker and a proud Puerto Rican, Jewish, bisexual woman with ADHD. She's been writing professionally since 2010 and was a former TMS assistant editor from 2015-18. Now, she's back as a contributing writer. When not writing about pop culture, she's writing screenplays and is the creator of your future favorite genre show. Teresa lives in L.A. with her brilliant wife. Her other great loves include: Star Trek, The Last of Us, anything by Brian K. Vaughan, and her Level 5 android Paladin named Lal.

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