Nope, it's not the book. Nope, it's not the movie. It's something else. This series has dispensed with all of the events prior to the selection of the original seven Mercury astronauts. That means Chuck Yeager, Muroc, Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club are not in this series. To compensate, you get 21st-century CGI effects and some new, semi-invented interpersonal relationship complications among the highly competitive Mercury astronauts, and the promise of added chapters for events that took place after Wolfe wrote the book. So far, it's the same subject material, abridged and made as a docudrama. Some new characters have been added, like the beautiful 2nd Lieutenant and Nurse Dee O'Hara played by Kaley Ronayne, obviously to "spice up" the plot. (She's worthy of being in this series. Look up her history.) You want the book? Read it. You want the original movie? Watch it. This series is something additional, and is quite digestible.
Review of The Right Stuff
