![]() ![]() The murder mystery at the heart of the action is ho-hum, and the characters seem trope-ish, but Ascension does carry with it some interesting ideas. In the portions of the show set in the present day, the son of the man who pioneered the Ascension program explains away the giant conspiracy that took place to kick the ambitious mission off: "We had the technology. Touches such as vintage hairstyles and a torch singer warbling "Fly Me to the Moon" in a spaceship are arresting, even if many of the details of the show require quite a bit of disbelief-suspending. And Ascension has its period-ish setting going for it: Since the group of people aboard the spaceship blasted off in the 1960s and, as one character says, never lived through the Summer of Love, they're trapped in a kind of Mad Mentime capsule, with seamed stockings and strapless cocktail dresses. In these times of doom-laden environmental headlines, a drama about a group of humans looking for a new planet to call home makes a zeitgeist-y sort of sense. Everyone has secrets on the Ascension, it seems, while back at home the existence of the ship and the Ascension program is the biggest secret of all. Denninger's going through a rough time as captain, particularly with his dangerous and manipulative wife Viondra ( Tricia Helfer) scheming against him. Bell) investigates the murder under the unsure command of William Denninger ( Brian Van Holt). Inside the claustrophobic ship of 600 souls, First Officer Aaron Gault (Brandon P. It's bad enough being mired in space, but now it looks like a murderer is on the loose. What if, limited series ASCENSION asks, instead of only touching down on the moon in the 1960s, the United States sent a vast spaceship (the Ascension of the title) on a century-long mission to find another planet where humans could live? Ascension picks up in modern times, where in space, the people who decided to go on the 100-year mission are dead or dying and those in power are the middle generation of cosmonauts: people who were born in space and most likely will die there without ever having seen solid ground. ![]()
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