While I'm glad that Aaron Ashmore was able to land a role so soon after Warehouse 13, this series feels too self-contained and yet overtly complicated. I don't see it moving past the first season.
I really enjoyed the firs three seasons, but fourth got more into fantasy than Sci-Fi. Somehow managed to watch the 5th season, but it was even worse. Sad how good series get ruined when they try to create something when out of ideas. Should've ended the series with the 4th season :/
Renewed for seasons 4 & 5!!! Well deserved by all involved with Killjoys. It's consistently funny, the one liners are fired from all directions, it's hard to keep up. And what a finale for Season 3! Epic! I can't wait to see what the next 2 seasons bring!
This show warmed my cold, dead sci-fi heart. Really great world building (although it's a smorgasbord of cultural appropriation), a woc lead with agency, wonderful relationships between the main trio and an entertaining and complex supporting cast. It's a really cool show.
Gets better after the pilot but best thing about the show so far: the soundtrack.
I miss the day of firefly. ..This was very nicely done , love the chemistry .great show
This series is great for the typical sci-fi watcher, and is a sort of campy, yet a little darker, feel. If you like Stargate series with a dash of SGU, then this show is for you. The pilot and first part of season 1 start off slow, with character building and just getting an overall feel for the setting. This is what happens with all new series. Luckily, they ease you in to a very good mystery by the end of season 1 and should continue to make for a great series.
I saw the first 2 seasons and it was okay. But I just couldn't get myself to continue after that.
enjoyed season 1 and 2, then 3 was a bit boring, 4 was worse and by season 5 I just wanted them all to die and for the show to be canceled.
I enjoyed this. The characters were winsome. The worlds were credible. The actors did well within the genre (Hannah John-Kamen did a marvellous job setting the anchor for the show). I have a soft spot for this made in Canada production and I will miss it. Although I would rate the series a 7 (good) out of 10, it has my affection like a 9. [SciFi Action Adventure]
That was a good show. I'll miss the universe it's built upon, so many possibilities, the characters, the stories, ranging from cheesy to epic. as far as Canadian Sci-Fi/Fantasy shows go, this was way better then most.
This show is one of my favourites, but I expected more from the final season.
I've recently re-watched this with a friend and I had to update my rating from a "could watch" 7 to a "definitely recommending this to people" 9. There's still some forced / shallow parts of the storyline that sometimes bug me a bit, but I guess that's okay in a show that's not suuuuper serious.
For me it's the small details that differ from the usual tv show fare which make this show worth watching for me. Like the kind of unconventional relationship between John & Dutch, the amount of not-only-heteroromantic interaction between characters, a refreshing lack of blunt sexist bullshit, casting actors with disabilities to portray characters with missing/augmented limbs and the like, instead of just CGI'ing the sh't out of the same old able-bodied people and also the multi-faceted pictures we get from different players. Nobody is just all good or all evil. I like that.
Also, silly jokes and some awesomely horrific puns make me happy :)
10/10 would recommend to friends!
The cast is great. A bit slow in the beginning but great afterwards!
for the past 4 years my friday were overtaken by the syfy trinity of dark matter, killjoys and wynonna earp. all three shows with amazing female leads and close knit found families. killjoys still goes so hard, every episode leaves me with waiting for the next.
you know, killjoys did this thing with their promotion, where it seemed like we were getting another sci fi show with a male lead, but then the first episode showed us the real main character was Dutch all along. she is such an amazing character that is loved and respected by her friends and crew, while they are also the most important thing to her. the characters are complex, we have diversity, everyone has great character development and bonds with the rest. the world building is amazing, we have all these super nice moon bases and ships and new tech. the first season starts off with some fun heists and the main storyline is super interesting too, hinting at conspiracies and more-than-human powers. it has super fun action scenes and great music, cannot recommend it enough. other than the show being super funny they constantly turn tropes on its heads. there are relationships in the show, but they are written so organically, no superficial drama is involved. wanna see kick ass lady assasins fightning? a pair of main protagonists who love each other dearly but canonically call each other platonic life partners? space gays getting married during an interplanetary war against aliens and surviving? evil, scheming wlw ladies falling in love and wreaking havoc together? killjoys has it all, despite their namesake.
This series starts out weak.. really weak actually, to the point that I have had to start over 6 times with the first episode as I stopped watching before actually finishing that one...
The first season actually felt like I was pushing myself through it, however, as the second season came, I started to enjoy, and at the current third season, it is fun to watch.
The main problem for this series is that it doesn't get through a real punch in combination with other running series in the same genre, like Orphan Black being far more compelling sci-fi to watch, and Dark Matter being more true to the "outer space" theme.
It's fun to watch for me as it's a sci-fi, and some episodes are actually spectacular to watch, but with Orphan Black being soon done, I hope Killjoys will push to be more compelling, as how it is right now, it won't be able to hold on, as it classifies itself in the same problem area as Dark Matter, which is that it is slowly becoming boring to watch...
Killjoys is such fun with shit hot leads and a killer soundtrack. We're up to season 3, I just hope we keep getting more and more. One of the best fun sci-fi shows out there at the moment.
Sorry to be a killjoy buy the series is quite poor.
Review by DanBlockedParent2017-08-31T22:45:29Z
Killjoys Season 3 completely transformed the show - and for the better - more so than I've seen with any other show!
It evolved from funny, lighthearted in Seasons 1-2 to an epic space opera centered around a Battlestar Galactica-esque intergalactic war of the races.
Instead of standalone, unconnected bounty hunter missions, now each episode furthers an overarching plot, in addition to **multiple parallel threads* for each of a now more balanced set of protagonists, and even the villains inspire some empathy, with their own stories being shown from their perspective in parallel.
Both protagonists and antagonists - of which there are now quite a few - are more three-dimensional, with flaws, backstories, failures and even deaths - adding a sense of tragedy to what has now evolved into a very compelling Sci-Fi Drama.
Now, instead of eye-rolling cheesy humor and cliches, now you experience increasingly tense, dramatic, unexpected and sometimes tear-invoking turns of events.
It goes from just 1 plot thread involving 3 protagonists always working together to a slew of main character and multiple antagonists affiliated with different groups with sometimes conflicting or intersecting interests.
The characters have become more compelling and three-dimensional, with each pursuing varying objectives in parallel plot threads . Backstories are developed and flaws and failures are finally shown.
Dutch takes a bit of a backseat as John - and especially D'Avin - evolve to become self-reliant, overcoming challenges alone, each with their own mission. I especially appreciate how D'Avin has gone from weak, beta, follower and supporting character - all brawn and little brain - to an alpha leader and star in his own right.
The missions are now self-determined - instead of just starting off each episode with one given to them as group at the start of the episode. As the other protagonists can no longer just rely on Dutch - who has finally started to show weaknesses - to save the day, you finally experience fear and empathy with the characters and buy-in to their plights, and they evolve from supporting characters to their own leading roles.
As has become more popular since Game of Thrones, the show is no longer afraid to go so far as to kill of main characters - becoming more realistic, with an sense of danger, and adding tragedy into the mix.