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    <em>The First</em> Is a Dazzling, Portentous Space Drama

    Beau Willimon’s new Hulu series about a groundbreaking Mars mission, starring Sean Penn, is gorgeous and occasionally insightful.
    by Sophie Gilbert Sep 15, 2018 4 minutes
    Source: Hulu

    It’s no secret at this point that Beau Willimon is preoccupied with ambition. After working on Howard Dean’s abortive 2004 presidential campaign, Willimon turned his experiences into a play, Farragut North, about toxic political aspiration. Then he created Netflix’s House of Cards, an almost comically bleak excavation of power and the rotten, sociopathic people who crave it.

    Willimon’s , released in its entirety Friday on Hulu, is different. Its characters are defined by the earnestness of their dreams, not their Machiavellian drive toward self-advancement. They deliver stirring monologues about heroism and the human race that, if you squint a little, seem almost Sorkinian. In early episodes, Commander Tom Hagerty (Sean Penn) emphasizes over and over

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