The first episode or so were gripping, especially the nail-biting scene where the capsule is in Earth re-entry where you're wondering "What is wrong with that woman?"
Which is sort of the intrigue initially: is there something wrong with her? Or has she really found an undetected signal or had some sort of contact with an alien race that has affected her? Or is she delusional/psychotic?
Then there's the whole subplot with the plane crash which was really eerie and compelling until...
Until like with so many plot lines in this show it went over a cliff, in this case with a ludicrous plot line where for a bit it appeared the wife had actually *caused* the plane crash and then... relatives of the victims descend upon the home or her husband and small child to threaten and menace them? Huh? What did they have to do with anything? This was the first indication the show wasn't going to hold up.
Sadly from there it devolves into a stock conspiracy theory tired thriller about how the evil government is... doing evil and the corporate sponsor (think of the John Hurt character in "Contact", but a woman) turns out to be not just evil but super evil and...
It doesn't get better. Good premise, lots of potential, but when even a car chase is thrown in... you've seen this all before. Sadly.
Which is sort of the intrigue initially: is there something wrong with her? Or has she really found an undetected signal or had some sort of contact with an alien race that has affected her? Or is she delusional/psychotic?
Then there's the whole subplot with the plane crash which was really eerie and compelling until...
Until like with so many plot lines in this show it went over a cliff, in this case with a ludicrous plot line where for a bit it appeared the wife had actually *caused* the plane crash and then... relatives of the victims descend upon the home or her husband and small child to threaten and menace them? Huh? What did they have to do with anything? This was the first indication the show wasn't going to hold up.
Sadly from there it devolves into a stock conspiracy theory tired thriller about how the evil government is... doing evil and the corporate sponsor (think of the John Hurt character in "Contact", but a woman) turns out to be not just evil but super evil and...
It doesn't get better. Good premise, lots of potential, but when even a car chase is thrown in... you've seen this all before. Sadly.
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