Some say the show is a little bit like "Grey's Anatomy" in space, others its like "Lost" in space. Well I personally think it isn't anything of this.
If you watch this tv show you get a tv show which is very realistic. No real fancy technical stuff what we all might like about Star Trek, no fighting scenes like in Star Wars. I don't want to spoil anything, but the plot is simple: make a journey through our solar system which really takes a long time and a mystery factor which everything makes more interesting and a starship which isn't that big.
You also get some realationships between the actors.
But there is action in this TV Show. I never get bored watching this and I am a little bit sad that the show got canceled after the first season. There is no big ending, but at least the show got a good last episode with not that big cliffhanger (like in Alcatraz).
I suggest give it a try, watch the pilot and the 2nd episode. If you do not like it after that, don't watch the show. If you do, watch it. It is not a waste of time.
Good. 7/10
This series starts out well, interesting and worth watching.
However, as this series moves on, it becomes clear that the writer(s) of this series lack imagination, it becomes repetitive, and because of that boring.
As of season 3, I stopped watching, I just couldn't keep watching this, it just was plain boring by the third season.
The main character Kirsten uses the stereotypical (quite) emotionless personality we have seen quite often recently, but as all the others at which this was tried recently, the character is not executed well. When it comes to Bones and House MD the characters all add up, like Brennan's(Bones) slowly becoming more connected, and House's connection being there only with a few people, like the Autistic boy in the Lines in the Sand episode, or with his friend Wilson, which is showing too little here.
Also, the characters Maggie and Cameron change extremely sporadically, making them feel like unreal people, taking away of being able to get sucked into the story of this series. And Fisher is used far too little for an actually quite interesting character in this series.
And then it got topped off by the relationship of Linus and Camille becoming completely unclear at random moments, as if the writers knew that they wanted to change something, and immediately executed it, instead of making it part of the story, and making us as watcher being able to stay involved when it comes to that.
In all regards, it may be worth to watch the first season, but after that, I would already advice to stop, as in all honesty, there is a clearly lacking ability of the writers behind this series to make an actual story...
Probably a nice show for people into American History, but for the rest of us, meh.
At least in "DC's Legends of Tomorrow" (which is also not a very good time travelling show) they travel in time all around the world, making it more appealing to non-Americans to watch.
I need to add that the show does get significantly better in the last few episodes of the first season, once they started to focus less on historical events and more on the main characters (with time travel still involved). I was losing interest in this show for most of season one, but by the end of it I was hooked. I'm now looking forward to the second (and probably last) season.
But there are far better time travelling shows out there, like "Continuum" and "Travelers", to name a couple of them.
Season 2 is better than the first, at least I found it more enjoyable, but the problem I mentioned in my first paragraph still remains. Either you're into American History or most of the stuff happening will just make you go "what?". Had this show travelled to the past all around the world instead of being stuck in the USA, I would have definitely found it much more appealing.
Like I said above, there are better shows involving time travel to binge watch.
Now that I’ve watched the entire series in literally one sitting, I’m ready to go back and go through it more slowly. Maybe take notes on each ep about the things I love and things that might trigger others.
There is just so much world-building for all that it is set right here and now. The layers of detail and the breadth of the world created is just fascinating.
Each location truly feels separate, probably because they did actually film on location heh. And each culture feels very distinct which creates such a sense of realism.
I am genuinely impressed with the technical aspects of this show: directing, writing, editing, cinematography, etc. But the heart of it is the chemistry between the main cast and how well they demonstrate the sudden intimacy that their new situations create.
Nothing felt inevitable, there was always a sense of risk and possibility. At the same time, the things that do happen feel right and true to the characters and situations. It’s masterful.
I feel so fortunate that this show exists and that I got to see it.
All that said, there are some incredibly intense moments in the show. There is a suicide in the early part of episode one. Later there is various levels of gore and violence. And if you have any bodily issues, the fact that the show in no way ignores the biological issues of cis women’s bodies might shock you.
As far as I can recall, however, there is no animal harm or rape/attempted rape. I specifically recall a scene where I was like, “oh thank fuck! he’s only trying to murder her.”
At the end of the day, the people I cared about survived and/or triumphed enough that the hardships they went through felt worth it. Intensity level-wise (language, sex, violence, plot) I would compare it to Starz’s Spartacus series. Quality-wise too, it’s that good.
This show is incredibly stupid and bad. But somehow it became a guilty pleasure for me.
It's so bad but at the same time in a way that it is entertaining to watch, just not how it was intended to be.
This show must have the most plotholes I have ever seen in a TV series.
If this wouldn't air on a major network like CBS it'd be cancelled after 3 episodes max despite the really, really low production costs that it must have, I suppose.
But since it's on CBS it got a full first season order of BS technobabble making no sense and characters so unlikable and sterile that I don't care for a single person and wonder how they made it through life so far. Not to speak of the positions they literally fell in.
Katharine McPhee (Paige, the waitress) is the only exception and good "feature" of this series.
Not because she is such a great actress, haven't seen enough of her to judge on that, but being the only halfway reasonable person on this awful cast of awful actors makes her the only likable person, in a way.
It's helping that she is cute, too.
I could go on and rip the premise and every episode apart and make fun of its absurd plots, terrible reasoning, repetitive and dumb dialogues but others did that already well enough.
Although being very nit-picky when it is about technology and terminology, that is basically raped on this show on a regular basis, my biggest pet peeve isn't within the above-mentioned.
Surprisingly it is with the blatantly wrong use of HTML syntax in the opening.
You have the maincharacter narrating that he has a higher IQ than Einstein and is one of the four people with the highest IQ on earth but it is subtitled with stuff like </starring> following the "stars". Ugh.
This contradiction is seriously annoying me and shows the technical and intellectual precision that this show has to offer throughout.
