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An early synopsis promised me a scifi story with a more serious twist on Buck Rogers and some Gravity mixed in.
What I got was a first episode of scifi and the following half of the season drowned in a repetitive psychological drama... It could not hold my interest beyond episode 4.
Acting and production all was top notch but how the story went made it clear to me it was not a long lasting show.
It reminds me of that Denzel Washington movie in which he safely landed a plane after a serious mechanical failure. The trailers focused on that and I thought the story was going to revolve about being a pilot or the technical investigation.
Nope. It was a drama about alcoholism.
It was good overall, but I expected something totally different.
Interestingly, this is what I liked about it. Sure, I was expecting more Sci-Fi, but I was pleasantly surprised to enjoy the psychological drama. They dragged it on too long and stumbled mid season, but I was there for it.
As I saw it, it was about grief and loss, and that's something not everyone is interested in watching all the time. So it was probably hard to market (unfortunately a lot of great things are just niche and hard to market). But the combination of a sci-fi idea and a drama about loss that they pulled off was for me rather wonderful.
The idea of that liminal cabin and how they wander in and intersect there at various times was beautiful to me. Episode 6, personally, was one of the most touching pieces of TV I'd seen in a long time.
Sums up why i stopped watching after the middle of the third episode. Don’t make your series seem like a scifi series and then pivot it to a boring psychological thriller.