EPISODE
Space: Above and Beyond - Season 1
In future, this television series follows in an extraordinary tension that follows the battles of a group of courageous pilots in an American Marine, who exerts a valiant effort to confront the unpleasant threat of outsiders that attempt to attack earth.
20 December 1963, Karachi, Pakistan
21 September 1970, Los Angeles, California, USA
9 May 1959, Portland, Maine, USA
29 June 1962, Carson City, Nevada, USA
20 February 1964, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
27 February 1940, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
4 August 1967, Tampa Bay, Florida, USA
12 September 1969, Tampa, Florida, USA
May 08, 2018
The visual components of the show-particularly the armament and the battle scenes-are sleek enough to excite younger viewers. But the plots and characters in Space are as thin as the air up there, and might leave adults floating out in the cold.
May 08, 2018
I watched a TV show find itself. Discovering what it was good at. Finding a way to balance action packed episodic narrative with serialized arcs long before Alias, 24, and Lost.
May 08, 2018
It takes nearly two hours of tiresome setup to get there, but Space: Above and Beyond may be on to a winning formula: a fighter-pilot drama set in space.
June 18, 2019
Space: Above and Beyond doesn't seem to know whether it wants to be a mind-numbing video game or a heavy-handed allegory for contemporary social issues.
June 18, 2019
While the acting was sometimes wooden, the lack of star power made the bleakness of war against the technologically superior Chigs more realistic; the show's stars came across as ordinary and therefore more credible.
May 08, 2018
It's stunning how well the series has aged since it's original run on Sky One in the mid nineties.
June 18, 2019
What [James] Wong and [Chris] Morgan have failed to do is develop those characters into relatable human beings, instead of cartoon characters.
May 08, 2018
This new series from Glen Morgan and James Wong, who worked on the wonderful X-Files, is as slow and obvious as The X-Files is fast and subtle.
May 08, 2018
There were plenty of interesting sci-fi touches to the action, including the introduction of clone soldiers that brought up some deep questions about the nature of humanity.
May 08, 2018
Space: Above and Beyond, which appeared on Fox in 1995, accomplished a lot. While it didn't last, it still made quite a mark - and influenced much of what followed.