Constellation review: Thriller’s science frustrates but it looks great

Constellation
Michelle MacLaren, Oliver Hirschbiegel, Joseph Cedar
Apple TV+

WHAT kind of life would you rather have: one filled with ecstatic highs and dizzying lows, or one of middling satisfaction, free from disappointment?

I suspect most astronauts would opt for the former, while risk-averse normies like me plump for the latter. I ask because I find myself fixated on a series about an astronaut, a show of such varying quality that it frustrated and delighted me by turns.

Constellation, an eight-parter…