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In the hands of this director, Agatha, Christie's original story ordeal by innocence is regretfully turned in to a bad film noir. Dave Brubeck was a great jazz, composer and musician no argument. Dave Brubeck's music does not fit this film, which would have been much better without it. The music is jarring and far too modern for the story giving it , along with the editing, that film noir quality and the two narratives, story and score, are constantly fighting each other. It's clear that the Brubeck soundtrack was important to the filmmaker because it often plays over the dialogue, informing the audience that the story they're watching is less important than the music they're listening to, which is not the purpose of a film score. Whit a different score and editing it may have been a much better, although arguably a more conventional film of a familiar story, but at least there might have been more room for better writing and more evidence of good acting.

Let's face it, if you are in a huge space station waiting for Earth to be safe to return to, along with hundreds of other people, you have to have a means of returning to Earth. Now your space station is old - falling apart and your life support systems are failing. You and those with you only have 6 months max to live - if - you can repair the failing systems and - if you kill 200-300 of your fellow survivors - NOW.

So without any further details of this ridiculous show being revealed - I couldn't complete 2 full episodes - You have to ask the question ... If to stay in place you have to kill so many people and have no assurance that doing so will get you longer than a short reprieve - WHY WOULD YOU NOT USE YOUR RETURN TRANSPORTATION AND GO BACK TO EARTH. DEATH ON EARTH OR DEATH ON A SPACE STATION - what is the difference? - TAKE THE CHANCE - YOU WILL BE NO WORSE OFF. This is the number one problem with the show - there are so many more - but who can go line by line department by department and point them all out? An extremely bad show. Just don't watch it.

I'm watching this show in 2025 - decades after it first aired. The program is full of empty headed terrible characters that understand and reflect on nothing, they simply react badly with extreme violence to every snippet of gossip that they hear. If you are trying to understand why America is tearing itself apart and lashing out at allies and competitors alike you only need to watch this and other "young adult" oriented TV shows like it. None if the characters are likeable and the over the top story lines could easily be substituted for what passes for American politics today where the wealthy mean girls and boys wreak havoc over the lives and worlds of the average citizens who are merely disposable background characters to the ridiculous melodrama of their "betters" who are actually far worse.