Last night while we were flipping through TV channels trying to find something interesting to watch, Lin ran across a show called Defying Gravity (official ABC site with auto-playing video/sound). We’d missed the first few minutes of it, and it wasn’t the premiere, so we felt a little lost. Then I remembered I had downloaded the double episode premiere from iTunes just the other day for free, so I loaded it up on my iPod and fed it to the TV while we recorded the current episode.

Defying Gravity is a sexy, provocative thriller set in the very near future against the backdrop of our solar system, in which the eight astronauts from five countries undertake a mysterious six-year international space mission on the spaceship Antares.

It’s kind of a weird show, but it’s science fiction, and we do love us some science fiction programming. Though it’s weird and mysterious, it sucked us in, so it must be at least somewhat well-written, well-acted, and interesting. I find myself looking forward to the next episode.

We don’t often pay much attention to the major networks, so sometimes we miss hearing about interesting new shows they might be showing. Not that they put out interesting new shows all that often (which is why we mostly ignore the basic networks). Thought I’d mention this show, in case someone else hadn’t heard about it. It may very well be worth watching.

Currently, the two episode premiere as well as last night’s episode is available for download (in both HD and SD) at iTunes for free, and all three episodes can be watched at Hulu. I suppose they can be watched at the ABC site too, but it wants me to install a plugin. I can’t be bothered.

Note: Apparently in the near-future the story is set in, abortion has been completely outlawed. I found that sort of interesting in a “why’d the writers decide to do that” kind of way. I don’t think it’s any sort of a political statement (though it could be). Instead, it seems to be a plot contrivance.