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‘Away’ is another mission-to-Mars drama that doesn’t achieve liftoff

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Eventually somebody’s going to make a really good TV series about a manned space mission, but “Away” isn’t it. Like Hulu’s “The First” and National Geographic’s “Mars,” this handsome Netflix drama about a crew traveling to Mars — and those left behind — wants to be stirring and mostly settles for dull, mostly proving that in space, no one can hear you snore.Eventually somebody’s going to make a really good TV series about a manned space mission, but “Away” isn’t it. Like Hulu’s “The First” and National Geographic’s “Mars,” this handsome Netflix drama about a crew traveling to Mars — and those left behind — wants to be stirring and mostly settles for dull, mostly proving that in space, no one can hear you snore.