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The first season was ok and had a promising start but it rapidly decayed into a sappy soap opera set in the Star Trek universe. The characters in the show and the plot have all the potential needed but the continuing agony of ongoing psychology sessions (they call them episodes) is making me reconsider my future and I'll need counselling, long into the future, for having watched this. Writing this is part of my exposure therapy after season 4 where my brain was set to stun. But seriously, so disappointed that the focus was on giving out life lessons and not writing good Star Trek stories. I get it that you can have positive messages in shows, not a bad thing, but this is just way too much, at the expense of a potentially good series.

In my personal unscientific rating scale 4=Forced myself to watch to the end but didn't really enjoy and won't watch it again.

To my mind the story behind this movie wasn't so bad. I read the other reviews first and it was a bit of a mixed bag so I decided I'd take a punt and hence the middle of the road rating. My advice: ignore the shortcomings of the direction and some of the stuff you shake you head and ask yourself "did they watch that after they made it?" and the movie itself is a good concept. It's refreshing to watch a new story in the horror genre and kudos that a different angle was taken. Having a known name in Sarah Hyland obviously helps, I thought she acted alright, maybe not the greatest script but a step (not a huge one) forward in getting un-typecast. Let the judgement slip through and you might enjoy it.