This Netflix series was engrossing enough to have our eyeballs glued to the screen for an entire evening as we binged watched all 8 episodes. Yes, the series borrows/copies heavily from previous sci-fi movies - Aliens and The Moon are the ones that readily come to mind. Using an intruder proximity detector that looks like it was made by the same manufacturer as the one in the Aliens movie, searching in the claustrophobic air ducts and engineering corridors for a monster that has killed one of the crew members, the discovery of a survivor who is a child, human cloning on the Moon, yep, been there seen that.
However, midway through the series, the story veers away from simply repeating those classic movie plotlines; in this series, it turns out that the monster and the child survivor are one and the same. The final ending veers even more sharply away from anything that I would have predicted, and was somewhat interesting if implausible..
The series plods along slowly in the first two episodes, and throughout the series, it continues to have way too many scenes where the people are just standing and staring. You want to scream at them and tell them to move! Get going! The run time of this series could have easily been sped up and chopped down to half its length. And there are a number of inexplicable decisions by certain crew members, especially the captain, at the end that just don't make sense.
Despite this, the production design and CGI visuals were excellent quality, enough to make the scenes laid out in this the future timeline believable. That and the engrossing storyline, even if easily recognizable as borrowed/copied from previous sci-fi movies, was enough to keep our attention.
Overall, I'd give this a "Not Bad" to "Pretty Good" rating.
However, midway through the series, the story veers away from simply repeating those classic movie plotlines; in this series, it turns out that the monster and the child survivor are one and the same. The final ending veers even more sharply away from anything that I would have predicted, and was somewhat interesting if implausible..
The series plods along slowly in the first two episodes, and throughout the series, it continues to have way too many scenes where the people are just standing and staring. You want to scream at them and tell them to move! Get going! The run time of this series could have easily been sped up and chopped down to half its length. And there are a number of inexplicable decisions by certain crew members, especially the captain, at the end that just don't make sense.
Despite this, the production design and CGI visuals were excellent quality, enough to make the scenes laid out in this the future timeline believable. That and the engrossing storyline, even if easily recognizable as borrowed/copied from previous sci-fi movies, was enough to keep our attention.
Overall, I'd give this a "Not Bad" to "Pretty Good" rating.
