From the Earth to the Moon

I've recently been caught up in HBO's From the Earth to the Moon, which they've been showing on demand. It's cheesy as hell, with lots of over-the-top triumphant music, but I've been digging it. Lots of good character portrayals, and the drama that's necessarily injected into the stories doesn't get in the way of the telling of the stories.

I just finished watching episode 10. They seem to have found a way of highlighting a different angle of the Apollo program with each episode: from the simple dramatic suspense of just getting to and landing on the moon, to training astronauts (erstwhile jet-jockeys, really) to not only be geologists, but to actually enjoy being geologists.

(I just realized that I've written two posts about Ron Howard productions in a row -- I think need to watch some Sergio Leone or something).