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Constellation review: Thriller's science frustrates but it looks great

After the International Space Station is hit by a mystery object, astronaut Jo Ericsson must fix an escape module to get home – against the clock and shifting realities. The visuals are amazing but the science wonky, says Bethan Ackerley

By Bethan Ackerley

21 February 2024

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Astronaut Jo (Noomi Rapace) with daughter Alice (Davina Coleman)

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Michelle MacLaren, Oliver Hirschbiegel, Joseph Cedar
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WHAT kind of life would you rather have: one filled with ecstatic highs and dizzying lows, or one of middling satisfaction, free from disappointment?

I suspect most astronauts would opt for the former, while risk-averse normies like me plump for the latter. I ask because I find myself fixated on a series about an astronaut, a show of such varying quality that it frustrated and delighted me by turns.

Constellation, an eight-parter from Apple TV+, is a psychological thriller…

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