Netflix’s Spaceman is slow, sad sci-fi — with a lovable space spider

/ Adam Sandler turns in a refreshingly reserved performance as a haunted astronaut who connects with an alien being voiced by Paul Dano.

By Andrew Webster, an entertainment editor covering streaming, virtual worlds, and every single Pokémon video game. Andrew joined The Verge in 2012, writing over 4,000 stories.

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Truly alien creatures are hard to relate to because they’re so, well, alien. The best-realized ones have different cultures and biologies and belief systems that make them distinct from humanity and, thus, hard to understand. The alien in the Netflix film Spaceman is one recent example: a giant spider with squirming tentacles, a disturbingly human mouth, the calming voice

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