1x04 In Universe

As @Elliot and @onlime similarly opined, while the overall CONCEPT of "Debris" is very intriguing and shows promise, so far however, it has taken 1 step toward the positive, followed by 1 step, not necessarily in a negative direction, but at best, just jogging in place. As it also occurred with "Fringe", "The "X" Files" and in some ways, "Lost", presenting the nacho, monster, and or, strange phenomenon of the week, interspersed with world building, story, and character development, is a delicate balance.

Not being a procedural, and acknowledging the high expectations for fans of the genre, seems to have caused the writers to be sure to include some "wiz bang" aspect for each "nacho", or in this weeks case, "SUPER Nacho Debris Grande", then leaving us wanting by wrapping up the segment with a nice bow, (they'll just sleep until we find a cure", having apparently never watched "Aliens", nor understanding the vagaries of the underpaid staff tasked with keeping watch over the corpsicle's of wealthy, but naïve eccentric's such as "The Splendid Splinter", baseball legend Ted Williams), leaving us to hope they'll have a long enough run to "circle back" to those left behind, and give their stories a proper resolution.

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ted-williams-frozen-head-batting-practice-cryogenics-lab-book-article-1.381985

Doing this each episode, while also introducing new "Happy Time Temporary Agency" team members, IMO takes away from time that could perhaps be better spent on "leaning into it's own mythology". Also, the duplicitous "speechifying" of the lead characters, low-key lecturing each other about honesty and the reality of making hard decisions, then getting mad and breaking just discussed protocol, because your "honest" boss revealed that his (implied) "dishonest" bosses withheld critical personal information from them, and thus you, who then orders you to withhold it from your partner and "hazard buddy". Rather than getting peed and leaving in a side-eyed huff, perhaps, if you behaved like the supposed PROFESSIONAL you are trained to be, instead of a prom date who spotted her guy chatting up her rival at the punch bowl, you would realize that he TOO was probably under ORDERS, but, unlike you, he takes his oath of duty seriously, which is they type of person I would like watching my back in a potentially hazardous situation. It's the nature of the game you agreed to play, and, you knew the rules going in.

But I digress....

It could, with skillful storytelling, have been just as, if not even MORE interesting perhaps if the farm workers WERE allowed to die, or they were put in stasis, and THEN the Brother found out. But having Finola have a sudden brain flash about a "super nacho" that could Rip Van Winkle the potential victims, then have the existential crisis of breaking the faith with her partner (both by calling in said nacho, AND by letting the Brother join his folks without at least first running it by him, not because it would make her look weak, but, because (again) it would be the right and honest thing to do), squandered an opportunity to understand each other better, and forge a stronger bond as a team. Now they have introduced an unneeded element of tension between them.

Bryan, in his own way, seems to be trying to prepare her for the inevitable reveal of the reveal of his, (their) deception, via the aforementioned "hard screwed up choices" talk., but apparently it went in one ear and out the other. So now we await the fall-out. A truly "CLEVER GIRL", would be able to keep her cool, and teasingly finagle bits and pieces of info ("Oh I miss my Father Soooooo much. I wish he could have been CLONED by last weeks nacho. What do YOU think Bryan?) and Bryan, being the clever boy HE is, would soon have a "penny drop" moment, where he knew that YOU knew, the voodoo, your Father do'd. And the bosses needn't be the wiser, THAT's what REAL partners should do.

This episode, we were also treated to a glimpse of Maddox's not so harmonious domestic life, his disabled kid(?), and the apparent strife between him and his wife. (Important Domestic Safety Tip: If you are THAT bothered by your other half answering your phone, either keep it with you, or set it to automatically lock when you don't have it on you.) They have fingerprint and facial recognition tech to make it not awkward to unlock it when it rings. In any case, this glimpse will hopefully give us some insight into Maddox's motivations and hopes for the machine they are slowly assembling.

These days, a show has to both hit the ground running, find it's stride quickly, and use any perceived momentum to it's advantage, so that the viewer not only keeps their eyeballs on the screen, but invites others to join them. If the writers and show runners were much better known, and renowned, we perhaps would be more patient and forgiving while Debris finds it footing. My fear is it won't find the audience numbers it needs to get some sustainable momentum, and like "Firefly" will be gone too soon. IDK if the writers already have the long term vision for Debris planned out, or if they're just tossing stuff up against the wall and seeing what sticks each week, but, they need to pick a direction and "lean into it", because if you keep running in place too long, you're soon find you're running on empty...