There’s a point early on in Oasis, one of the contenders in Amazon’s new pilot season, which grounds the episode perfectly: Peter Leigh, a recently widowed priest with some serious concerns about his future in the church, has been functionally drafted onto the next mission to Oasis, the first interstellar colony. He has nothing left on Earth, so he agrees to go. The technology that propels him into orbit is very clearly slightly modified Russian boosters. There’s the same tapered design, the same steppe-based launch facility and the same sense of Peter riding into orbit on the top of a very large, intensely combustible object that someone has only just finished soldering together. It feels real, and clunky, and untidy.