TOFU STIR FRY, TWO CUPS OF broccoli, one cup brown rice. 0% yogurt, one grapefruit. Thirty baby carrots, 4 tsp hummus.
No, this isn’t the pre-holiday diet from hell, but a typical day’s food for Emma Green, an astronaut played with trademark intensity by Hilary Swank in Netflix’s new 10-episode drama series Away. At least, that’s what she eats when she’s earthbound. Up there, it’s a lot worse…
SFX is having a nosey around Emma’s tasteful family home (actually an elaborate set in Vancouver), opening drawers to examine cutlery, and picking up and playing with space-themed ornaments.
“Lex, money for pizza on fridge” is scrawled across a blackboard; naturally, we head to the fridge, where we find no money, but rather the meal plan in question, pinned under a family photo just as it might be in any kitchen. We’re in pain just looking at it.
Have you ever imagined life as an astronaut? Wondered what it would feel like to be only the 663rd person to see Earth from space? Would such privilege make the preparation, the isolation, the confinement, and the diet – the dehydrated, freeze-dried, ultra-processed “Neapolitan ice cream” and such that’s de rigueur for astronauts – worth it? Such are the questions posed by Away – inspired by a 2015 Esquire article of the same name, about astronaut Scott Kelly’s year-long stay on the International Space Station, as the first step towards a human expedition to Mars.
TALKING SPACE
Cosmic musings with the cast of Away
HILARY SWANK
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Making Alien - Jaws in Space - Forty-five years on from its original release, Alien continues to terrify. We dissect what arguably remains the most chilling instalment in the saga
The seven-strong crew of the commercial mining spacecraft the Nostromo seal their fate after reluctantly responding to a mysterious distress signal on a hostile planet. Here, a face-hugging alien from a derelict ship impregnates and later kills executive officer Kane (John Hurt) after its offspring is birthed onboard. After being unleashed, the fearsome newborn with acid for blood proceeds to dispatch the remainder of the crew.Ridley Scott's much more convoluted prequels have yet to reveal how the knowledge that led to this initial interception was acquired. However, the premise of the original Alien is perfect in its uncomplicated purity.
PURE AND SIMPLE
IN THE FINAL PART OF OUR EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW, SHOWRUNNER RUSSELL T DAVIES TALKS RELAUNCHING DOCTOR WHO
TO CAP IT ALL OFF
CELEBRATING 40 YEARS OF THE BBC SERIES THE TRIPODS
FRENCH REVOLUTION
THE WALKING DEAD SPIN-OFF SHOWRUNNER DAVID ZABEL ON BEING GIVEN THE TOUGH TASK OF REUNITING DARYL AND CAROL IN FRANCE
SILENT KILLERS
THE DIRECTOR OF HOLLYWOOD'S SPEAK NO EVIL REMAKE ON HORROR, COMEDY AND JAMES MCAVOY
BRING OUT YOUR DEAD
THE GHOST WITH THE MOST RETURNS FINALLY - IN BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE
TEENAGE DREAM
JOE LOCKE HITS THE ROAD RUNNING
MOB RULE THE PENGUIN
GOTHAM'S UP FOR GRABS IN BRUISING NEW CRIME SAGA BUT WHERE IS THE BATMAN?
SEASON OF THE WITCH
AS MARVEL TELEVISION CARVES OUT A NEW PATH FOR ITSELF, WE SPEAK TO CREATOR JAC SCHAEFFER, PLUS A CAST OF STARS LED BY KATHRYN HAHN AND JOE LOCKE, ABOUT THE MAGIC OF WANDAVISION'S SPIN-OFF AGATHA ALL ALONG
Ghouls Allowed
Even silence can't save you at this year's Halloween Horror Nights
