The Right Stuff is a Disney Plus original reminding people why we no longer live like the 60s. Based on a movie of the same name, The Right Stuff follows in its predecessor’s footsteps by being a total flop. The original movie lost a grand total of seven million dollars. With its poorly written, and averagely acted characters, this show adds to the never-ending list of bad Disney Plus originals.

Under an overall aesthetic of dark, like squint-to-see-anything type dark. We open with an annoying ticking-second style clock (who has those in real life?) to set the scene. May 5, 1961, Cape Canaveral, Florida. And the show cuts between shots of a space base (on Earth) and two people sleeping, jogging, eating, etc… It’s slow and boring and nothing original. As the two characters eat breakfast, their relationship becomes clearish. No. Nevermind. I’m just guessing here. They appear to be former friends, but the show dodges around giving us an explanation, all the while bombarding us with vague information about the space program as a shuttle launch.

We’re thrown in a forced “two years earlier” thing that makes me wonder why we didn’t start from there. But thankfully, the screen is now visible. We’re then introduced to NASA, which at the time has two people working there, just a small start-up. The rest of the episode is a lot of parts that could matter if the show didn’t force them down our throat. They give a NASA recruitment lecture, a training montage that looks like it took place in the trainers’ room, and some kind of relationship? I’m a little confused on the last one and I think the writers were too. They lazily give the lead a few scenes with a female whose name we don’t learn. Also, I’m confused about who is the main character, that’s the danger of a basic make-up team that makes everyone look alike. Sidebar, we might learn people’s names but the sound is so bad you have to have it full volume to hear people speak, but then go deaf at half volume from the planes flying overhead.

So remember the start of the episode? No? That’s alright, we never go back to the present, again making me wonder why we didn’t start in the past. I wouldn’t recommend this to anyone I tolerate. It’s so boring, it should come with a warning, “May put older people to sleep” (interpret that how you like). All-in-all it’s a slow-paced, boring show that made me wish I was watching Netflix’s Space Force instead.