This Has Possibilities: Strange Angel, a New Series

https://www.indiewire.com/2018/05/strange-angel-trailer-cbs-all-access-david-lowery-1201959291/

This is a series about Jack Parsons, the dude who developed Galcit-53 and composite solid rocket propellants as we know them.
The book on which it is based was good. I have a feeling that the series will be more about Black Magic than rocketry.

Don't forget to read some early Heinlein and Hubbard to get in the right mood.

I wonder how this portrayal of Jack Parsons will compare to his portrayal on Drunk History. https://www.cc.com/video-clips/h71t46/drunk-history-jack-parsons-loved-his-sex-magick

Yeah... Like spoiler alert

I watched the trailer this week....knowing what I've read about Jack Parson's weirdness, this won't be a show for the kids.
More like October Sky meets Eyes Wide Shut.

[video=youtube;yIQWUhMb_2M]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIQWUhMb_2M[/video]

ThirstyBarbarian said:

I wonder how this portrayal of Jack Parsons will compare to his portrayal on Drunk History. https://www.cc.com/video-clips/h71t46/drunk-history-jack-parsons-loved-his-sex-magick

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Watched most of the first episode of Strange Angels. The Drunk History version was more entertaining.

Overall the writing is pretty poor. The dialogue between Parsons and, well, any other character is fingernails-on-a-blackboard bad. The arguments about rocket motors with Richard Onsted (who?) are particularly annoying.

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Parsons makes a last-minute change to a liquid fuel motor for a demonstration. This, apparently, involved nothing more than stealing tanks of oxygen and methanol and attaching them with rubber hoses to the combustion chamber of what had been their solid fuel motor. He literally makes this change overnight and without telling Onsted (who neither missed the wallet that Parsons stole so he could impersonate Onsted to "check out" the chemicals from Cal Tech, nor bothered to look under the tarp in the back of the truck before they started the long drive out to Arroyo Seco for the demonstration).