The New Cosmos Show Was Not At All Good

And not at all necessary.  The whole exercise felt like an Ann Druyan fundraiser; it's okay if she likes money, I guess, but this remake thing was pretty tawdry.  Neil DeGrasse Tyson is earnest enough, but if you wanted to do a pop-science show, actually redoing Cosmos was probably the worst possible choice.  There have been a shitload of nature and science shows since Sagan's original--even that keyboard player guy from that awful British synth band had a show about physics and shit that felt very much like an update of Cosmos without having the gall to rip off the title--so we have all seen the good and the bad and everything else, and if some person or group was REALLY interested in setting a new benchmark, well, they wouldn't have had to call it Cosmos.  The production looked pretty shitty too; now that we've seen it all before, and tee vee, and movies, and the rest of the computer-generated banality, this new show isn't gonna be anywhere good enough.  It's a thing because, but it's not a good thing for any of us not named Druyan or Tyson.