What can I say about this show. I was quite looking forward to it when it was announced but, as each new episode appears it just gets more and more foolish.
First annoyance. A female character who is completely annoying and irritating and seemingly incapable of being rational. How such a character would have survived a train cancellation is a mystery, let alone how she got on the crew.
Later, in another episode, a male character becomes almost a clone of her, shrieking and panicking in a most pathetic way.
I suppose the intent was to make the drama more human, more realistic. To show how humans might react under great stress. All it actually served to do was annoy you and make you hope the above characters came to a sticky end - which they do, though of course one of them has to make a heroic sacrifice (tm) beforehand.
In addition, the motivations of the crew seem at times to be jarringly at odds with the reality of their situation. At times you want to scream "What the hell are you talking about?!? Get on with it!" at the screen.
Now, I like character development, but this show has altogether too much random twaddle being spouted by one character to another for no real purpose. The characters are simplistically constructed. So much so that you understand their goals, motives and such very quickly. But it seems the script called for endless rehashes of the same points, as if the targetted audience was assumed to be particularly stupid and needed the same fact repeated ad nauseum.
All in all, the show is overlong. It should be three episodes, not however many its dragging on for. In addition the characters are not terribly likable or empathetic. It's hard to care what happens to any of them really. The plot is rather simple so far, albeit rather ludicrous in its scope.
So to summarise, not worth your time unless you are very bored. But being very bored is much preferable to having to watch this overblown nonsense.
First annoyance. A female character who is completely annoying and irritating and seemingly incapable of being rational. How such a character would have survived a train cancellation is a mystery, let alone how she got on the crew.
Later, in another episode, a male character becomes almost a clone of her, shrieking and panicking in a most pathetic way.
I suppose the intent was to make the drama more human, more realistic. To show how humans might react under great stress. All it actually served to do was annoy you and make you hope the above characters came to a sticky end - which they do, though of course one of them has to make a heroic sacrifice (tm) beforehand.
In addition, the motivations of the crew seem at times to be jarringly at odds with the reality of their situation. At times you want to scream "What the hell are you talking about?!? Get on with it!" at the screen.
Now, I like character development, but this show has altogether too much random twaddle being spouted by one character to another for no real purpose. The characters are simplistically constructed. So much so that you understand their goals, motives and such very quickly. But it seems the script called for endless rehashes of the same points, as if the targetted audience was assumed to be particularly stupid and needed the same fact repeated ad nauseum.
All in all, the show is overlong. It should be three episodes, not however many its dragging on for. In addition the characters are not terribly likable or empathetic. It's hard to care what happens to any of them really. The plot is rather simple so far, albeit rather ludicrous in its scope.
So to summarise, not worth your time unless you are very bored. But being very bored is much preferable to having to watch this overblown nonsense.