Why is it that nobody, I mean NOBODY, seems to ever get this genre right anymore. Space exploration and colonization could be very exciting and thrilling in a positive way, or even merely thought-provoking, but instead, time and time again, we get hokey "interpersonal drama" (and in this case even hokey dysfunctional-family hokey melodrama) with introspective, negative, downbeat, self-absorbed, overwrought characters against what is practically a horror movie backdrop. I mean, it seems a crime to spend so much money doing so much creative art department work just to blow it all as though the writers and producers had skipped Storytelling 101 (not to mention, 102, 201, 202 . . . ) in school, but instead think that glomming together a series of impossible cliffhangers and a few sci-fi nuggets on top of such unlovable characters is going to be compelling entertainment. So, once again I found myself starting yet another off-network TV series which I know I will give up watching before the first season is through.
Review of Lost in Space
