"another life": is the netflix scifi series good or bad? EXPERTS DIFFER!!

— everyone is pretty
— boneitis is a thing apparently
— the ship's alexa is a pretty emo robot (male, torn)
— there is a lady who angrily swears A LOT
— it's "the core" in space
— let's watch and decide

"boron-based virus" klaxon

I've watched one episode. It made me want to do crunches.

the scenes back on earth continue to be boring

elon musk gag klaxon zzz

still watching but my god, the musical choices on this show are terrible

POLY IN SPACE

Watched ep1. I dunno about this

Some things about this are good, other things are v bad. I do kind of appreciate how shamelessly they hit various canonical sf tropes (Trek, Alien, Battlestar... uh Arrival).

it is indeed very shameless in this and other ways and this is a thing i quite like

the earth-based storyline finally woke up

(other films and stories it's stealing from: starship troopers *and* solaris!)

Haha yes to both of those

I’m on ep4 and the earth shit is so bad

"I cracked the code by turning my screen sideways!" was p lolzy

I gave up part of the way through episode 4 or 5 and skipped to the last episode - still bad, and from what I could tell I didn't actually miss anything important in those 5-6 episodes.

This is the show I put on when I want to take a nap on the sofa.

it's enjoyably bad

My spouse has been watching it. I get the 5 word recap at the end when I wake up.

I wake up every so often to say "that little girl is so annoying."

"Starbuck sad"
"Starbuck mad"
"Starbuck sad again"

Fiona's boyfriend is doomed to seeming somewhat sleazy no matter what role he plays post-Shameless

pressure-creaking borrowed from "voyage to the bottom of the sea"

lol @ space candy-rave sequence

roflz @ the "twists" in the last couple eps - looks like we'll get a little "V" action with the earth plotline

well the earth plotline can't really get worse so hurrah i guess

I was briefly interested in the earth plotline when they had that "first contact" sort of sequence. Honestly I was wondering if they were going to go 2001 or Solaris with that and they kinda did the latter I guess. Absolutely hate all of the cast in the earth plotline though, they are all terrible.

GF has been watching this the last several days (and I have been able to read a fairly dense book on the couch next to her while also keeping up with basically everything happening onscreen. Shakey's review otm:

Some things about this are good, other things are v bad. […]

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My going theory is that they quickly added a bunch of swears after the CW declined to pick up the show. I appreciate, if nothing else, their willingness to ruthlessly dispatch their chiseled mid-20s castmembers only to pull a replacement (and they even just straight-up call them replacements) out of cold storage five minutes later.

Is this camp? I think it might be camp.

haha watching Ad Astra last night made me think of this (which I had totally forgotten about)

Yeah, I figured I should get my thoughts down as quickly as possible since it's been like twelve hours since I last watched it and I don't expect it to linger in my memory much beyond that.

I think it qualifies as camp, would probably watch a second season

Well then, my friend, you are in luck: https://deadline.com/2019/10/another-life-renewed-season-2-netflix-katee-sackhoff-1202771687/

Yeah, can't believe they renewed this but not Tuca & Bertie, The OA, Daybreak etc