‘Lost In Space’: Cast and Creators on the Challenges of Setting a Relatable Family Drama in Deep Space

The first episode of Netflix’s “Lost in Space” opens with a scene that might feel awfully familiar to anyone who remembers long trips with the family: Mom, Dad, and the kids killing some travel time by playing Go Fish.“It’s like they’re on a train journey.

Do you know what I mean?” actor Toby Stephens told IndieWire.

“A family on a train journey.

What do you do? You play cards.

You’re killing time, you’re playing a card game.

Like any family on a journey somewhere or in an airport or whatever.”However, the Robinsons aren’t traveling by train or plane — they’re on a spaceship, escaping potential disaster, and John (Stephens) has started this zero-g game of cards to distract his family from the peril they’re in.“I thought that that was just a really, really clever idea, as a setup, to introduce

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