Lost in Space (TV Series) The New Guy (2021) User Reviews

jumping shark

[Rob-O-Cop · 6/10 · 4 December 2021]

Some good bits in this episodes but a couple of groaner points too.

An asteroid field made from a few 'roids bumping into each other suddenly became an asteroid field so tightly packed it might as well have been solid ground. An outer shell. No light would have got through, you wouldn't be able to see the sky, let alone be something you would fly through. The amount of matter it would take to make the 'field' would be he size of a small planet, not some asteroids banging into each other.

I understand it made a more visually exciting thing but it dropped the show into ridiculousness, which it thankfully mostly manages to avoid after a shaky season one, so it's disappointing to see i slip back into old habits.

The double cross for the engine was pretty silly too.

Still watchable but flawed.

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

[southdavid · 7/10 · 1 February 2022]

If the second episode of the season was fine but pedestrian, episode three is certainly a step up - with some excellent visuals and some twists that I didn't see coming.

With their new ally, Maureen (Molly Parker), John (Toby Stephens) and Don (Ignacio Serricchio) try to locate and bring back an engine - but they're unsure as to just how much they can trust Scarecrow to stick to their plan. Will (Maxwell Jenkins) explores the ruins further and discovers some facts about the species that created the robots. Meanwhile, Judy (Taylor Russell) arrives back with Captain Kelly (Russell Hornsby) but as one of only two adults, should he assume a command role? Particularly if he disagrees with Judy's decisions.

In the last episode, I noted how daft it was to move the sleeping humans in their machines, given that there was a cliff to get down. Evidentially agreeing with me, the show chose to miss out the scenes of them parachuting down and instead show them all in the ground and comment on it. That was the only real point of contention though in an episode that I thought was pretty good. We still don't know what happened to the race that built the robots, but we do now know that they built them in their own image. I liked the story between Judy and Captain Kelly, and I also liked how it played out, as I'd have assumed that it would have been a humans over computers storyline, so the fact that science and not instinct was right was refreshing. I really liked seeing some of the old June Harris again, with the urge to kill, to save her own life coming to the front again.

The best story though, was the one with Scarecrow and the unexpected resolution to that adventure. Again, I didn't see it coming and it changed not just the end of the episode, but also how I thought the rest of the season might play out.

What is going on?

[dwuudz-35775 · 10 December 2021]

"This is the most important archeological discovery in human history, and I only have 19 hours to explore it"

*proceeds to take a ash sample (why?) and play with alien drum pad, destroying the entire archeological site within 15 minutes*

What?

[nkstorck · 10/10 · 22 December 2021]

I think Grant Kelly was miscasted. If he was in a cytogenetic sleep for twenty years, he should have been about 25 not 40. Judy should have animated a person whose was like an older brother not a father. Otherwise, it was a good episode.

Offset the Anti Woke Police

[dkmauws · 10/10 · 29 July 2022]

Just wanted to come on here to rate this episode a 10 because I know the anti woke police will be trigger by this episode. Judy has to over ride her real Dad's piloting by placing the auto pilot back on and she was right. If Judy was a male character nothing would be said about this but because Judy is a female characte it will drive the anti woke police crazy. I laugh at these snowflakes. SMH.

The series becomes more and more captivating

[marianciobanuz · 10/10 · 14 December 2021]

• I really liked this episode and this series deserves 10 stars just because it is the only sci-fi series ,excepting the Mandalorian , without woke people with disgusting haircuts (like Fake Trek Discovery , The Expanse , Cowboy Bepop...sorry Bebop , Foundation and even the new Halo live Tv show , it seems it's some kind of creative corona virus between creators, because they know we hate them ). It is true ,the part with the physics is wrong , but the series is pretty good and for me this is better than the rest of what we have at the end of 2021.

Lost in Poor Character Connections

[wadd-79248 · 2/10 · 3 January 2022]

I was prepared to accept 2 seasons of crowded characters and over hyped action to see if the revamped Lost in Space would elevate to something akin to the original, but alas, it's understandable to me now why Netflix had to cancel it.

Very poor and frustrating main character development devoid of love and care that we, the viewers, should feel for them. Where is the loveable villain? Where is the humanity for the likes of the robot or the person most connected to him? Where is the emotional bonds between any of the characters which transcends beyond a simplistic scene? Why is everything dark and scary? Moments of humour were never matched by the likes of Mr Zumdish of the Intergalactic Department Store. Where were the themes of moral reflection? Why was Will left by himself to search through the dark unknown catacombs and not finally befriended by the robot? That situation alone pretty much summed up how the Netflix Lost in Space literally lost its way. Such a sad situation for a series that promised so much but remained lost and never found itself.

Irwin Allan had a brilliant 3 seasons of the original Lost in Space that ended on a high, and he would have made more had the network given him a tiny portion of the Netflix' budget. He pulled the plug when he didn't want to compromise quality.. As it turned out, more money than good character development and scripting sense couldn't save the soulless Netflix version.

Wokeness is back

[wildsnow90 · 4/10 · 4 December 2021]

Well, here we are in eposide 3 and the action is starting finally. But the wokeness is back too. Judy has to over ride her real Dad's piloting by placing the auto pilot back on, and of course, she was RIGHT. Oh yeah, Maureen help design the auto pilot. If we had only known that we would have never questioned turning it back on in the first place.

Dumb and dumber

[FENR8R · 1/10 · 3 January 2022]

Worst episode yet. Pure idiocy. Asteroid field cliche. No effort to recognize rank or seniority. Total BS re the alien robots. Come on. They're not even trying to be halfway intelligent anymore.

Will does something stupid - like most other episodes really

[plamen_xp_lv · 4/10 · 16 January 2024]

At this point I would question everyone who is not actively rooting for Will to die. He is annoying, absolutely arrogant, half of the human errors in the whole series were made by him or because of him getting in trouble, and because he has the thickest plot armour of the all, he is always unharmed and continues being even more arrogant. For a 12-14 year old kid this is impressive in a very bad sense of the word.

Like, he just says he discovered the most important archeological discovery of all time...but he doesn't call anyone to assist, his main "efforts" involve him recording stuff on video, desecrating a skeleton of an intelligent being and using it to activate random buttons he has no idea about, which could potentially trigger an atomic bomb in the valley where the rest are for all he knows. He prefers to destroy the whole place instead of leaving it alone, and yet again survives because someone comes to his rescue.

Also, as usual, he acts absolutely entitled towards Robot, but this is in most episodes.

Seriously, I dislike him way more than Smith at this point.