Review of Another Life
Thursdays, 3:00 AM ET on Netflix
60 minutes
Created by Aaron Martin (Slasher, Saving Hope, DeGrassi: The Next Generation), who also serves as showrunner, Another Life centers on astronaut Niko Breckinridge (Sackhoff) who is focused on searching for alien intelligence. She leads a crew on a mission to explore the genesis of an alien artifact. As Niko and her young crew investigate, they face unimaginable danger on what might very well be a one-way mission.
Add to blender: Alien, Arrival, Lost in Space, Contact, and bits and pieces of every sci fi blockbuster from the last 30 years, then set to purée.
It starts a little rough but gets better. They quickly run out of sci-fi troupes to use and the plot meanders around in search of a reason to be on TV. Its mostly one disaster after another, counter pointed with the mystery of alien contact.
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This show should have run for a couple of seasons at least, but it was cut short and didn't even finish filming the first season. The last episode looks like it was rushed on a shoestring budget. The last scene attempts to give a kind of conclusion but its vague and very unsatifying.
How a show with Brent Spiner and a young Peter Dinklage is not more well known is beyond me. I never even heard of this show until I saw someone else on Sidereel mention it.
There are definitely some great moments. My favorite is the last scene of episode 2. I LOLed in joy.
With a few cast changes and some better writting this could have been a cult classic. But in the end I kept marking it down in rating due to very dumb writting choices and certain actors that either can't act or were just wrong for the parts. I guess the aliens won.
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