If you are watching the list of fall shows, you might have noticed Hulu’s upcoming series Last Days of the Space Age. The new drama premieres on October 2, 2024.
Here is the summary from Hulu:
In 1979, a power strike threatens to plunge the region into darkness in Western Australia, while the city hosts the Miss Universe pageant and the US space station, Skylab, crashes just beyond the city’s suburbs.
The trailer provides a little more context, but there is a reason that Skylab is mentioned last in the short summary. The space age plays a small part in a bigger human drama. Fortunately, it is not really the end of the space age as much as the end of a bit of the space age as it falls from the sky. The real Skylab disintegrated in the Earth’s atmosphere on July 11, 1979, leading to debris falling into the Indian Ocean as well as Western Australia.
Once the International Space Station is nudged out of orbit in the coming years, we may have more debris fields generating television ideas. I just wonder if it will take another 45 years to make it to your screen.
This series may be as good as it gets on television until Andor returns next year. The space-related television pickings are pretty slim at the moment.
Update: To be fair, there are a few more shows to check out before the end of the year, including Dune: Prophecy coming on November 17 and another Star Wars series called Skeleton Crew premiering on December 3.
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