Another Life

You know the saying "If you have to do something wrong, do it right"? Well, this series feels like the opposite of that saying. I love space and sci-fi. But this one is horribly executed. Toe cringing.. Within the first 7 minutes, all they think the viewer needs to know has happened, and they're off into space. Come on, give us a story..! Those first 7 minutes should have been a whole episode in itself! It felt rushed.

The CGI effects are neither great nor good. They're decent. And decent is not good enough for something like this!

And man, the crew on the ship.. Are you kidding? Young people in their late teens, or mid-twenties at most. Put those in a high school drama instead (the way they talk and behave, actually fits a high school drama very well). You don't care for the characters. Besides, it wouldn't be believable to put young people on a critical mission like this. They would have sent more grown up people, who had more experience. It all just feels very wrong and not believable.

Come on, Netflix. Commit to quality, not quantity! Disappointed.

So I watched a few more then went straight to the final episode. No regrets. But still, this show is a car crash you can't look away from. Behaviour of the crew sent to save Earth is completely devoid of believability due to the terrible writing not taking into account any form of rationality. The writers may have been teenagers, because that is the only way the characters in this show interact. Zero depth. But maybe that's intentional? Maybe they want the show to be like this so you watch it to feel better about yourself.. reality tv at its worst has more believable emotions.

Remember the Pigs In Space segment of the Muppet Show, where all of the most useless personalities were put on a ship in poorly written plot situations, and none of the characters had a single rational thought?

That's the whole show in a nutshell. Right down to Miss Piggy hauling off and decking somebody who disagrees with her, while they are in imminent danger. Hiiiyyyyaaaaah!

Katee is excellent as always. And yes everything else is pretty bad, but I can't stop watching this dumpster fire of a show! There's just enough exciting sci-fi elements and horror WTF moments to keep me going. Pretty much every episode ends with a cliff hanger that makes me want to see what they cook up next. This is not a deep show at all but think of it as summer fluff to just be fun and let the mindless entertainment begin.

The dialogue and acting was very suspect in the first few episodes of the show. It's hard to tell if it was the writers or the actors themselves; however, as the story developed, everything seemed to get much smoother. Sometimes you have to look beyond the cheesy sci-fi facade and enjoys the story for what it is. I implore those of you who are reading this to watch until episode 10. I, for one, think that this story has a lot of potential, and I hope the long list of gut reaction 1-2 star reviews don't destroy that chance. If you're going to write a review, you should at least be required to watch the entire series.