For All Mankind (Waiting for something cool to happen, still.)

"I could've been the first man on the moon, you know?" -the protagonist every time he gets a chance

 The series is incredibly slow, and one has to pretty much push through the first few episodes, but the development of characters and the interest of the audience has steady progress as the storyline furthers separates from ours starting with the Soviets winning the moon race, passing through historical events and adding small details here and there that start to pile up big changes until season three where it has nothing to do with reality.

 Each episode lasts an hour and the three or four major problems entwine through the ten hours until they become one, giving the feeling that one's watching a ten-hours movie rather than a ten episodes series.

 Clearly meant for very, very patient audiences probably more mature than me. I kinda liked the series, but it left me a nasty aftertaste of waiting for some big event to happen that never comes. I remember being particulary dissapointed when the protagonist, who in the first episode, or one of te first episodes, almost becomes the first man on earth but aborts because of mechanical failure, gets a second chance to be the first man, this time on mars and still blows it.