The mission and the series is led by sean penn as tom hagerty a seasoned astronaut whose time on the job has historically provided him the opportunity to escape a turbulent personal life.
The first review sean penn.
Hulu s the first is being sold as the story of sean penn leading the crew chosen for the first manned mission to mars.
Sean penn and hulu go to mars eventually vox hulu s the first is everything wrong with modern tv drama.
The website s critical consensus reads sean penn gives an intensely poignant performance as the driven but conflicted tom hagerty in the first s rather slow moving first season.
That is flat wrong.
Reader i loved it.
On the review aggregation website rotten tomatoes the series holds an approval rating of 68 with an average rating of 6 3 out of 10 based on 59 reviews.
It is absolutely beautiful and achingly raw sad and honest.
Set in the near future hulu s the first stars sean penn as an astronaut on the first manned mission to mars in theory a daring feat of human invention and optimism that hasn t been seen since.
This show has left me stunned and haunted.
Don t let anyone convince you that it never got off the ground as i see some reviews stating.
For starters when the.
The first critics consensus.
The first review channel 4.
Sean penn plays astronaut tom hagerty in the new show by house of cards beau willimon.
Sean penn s star power prevents this space drama from taking off there is no doubting the ambition of beau willimon s new drama on channel 4 but it needs to draw more.
The first review sean penn s mars drama fails to launch 2 5 any hopes that the actor s first regular tv role might lift off were dashed right from the start in this plodding space saga.
Every single character is complex human flawed and totally relatable.