Netflix Made the Worst Show of 2019
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Channel: Jay Exci
Views: 2,036,023
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Keywords: another life, netflix, netflix original, bad show, another life review, another life is bad, bad, Niko Breckenridge, Katee Sackhoff, Samuel Anderson
Id: UauWDakHQo0
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Length: 68min 51sec (4131 seconds)
Published: Sun Aug 18 2019
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I almost got through the first episode, but had to bail. It was too stupid for me to handle. Here's some of the stupid:
Our hero Niko is a female pilot who is the best ever. By a strange coincidence, her husband Erik is also the most brilliant scientist ever. They also happen to live adjacent to where the alien ship lands on Earth.
After two seconds of failing to communicate with the alien vessel, all of Earth's scientific community abandons the effort and leaves Erik, the most brilliant scientist ever in the history of everything, alone with a couple of interns to "figure it out". Because a gigantic alien vessel landing on Earth isn't that big a deal and the world's scientists had grant applications to fill out.
After two seconds of consideration, the government drafts Niko to captain a spaceship and visit the alien homeworld to see WTF is up. They team her up with an ex-captain who is known to be volatile and unreliable. Because that's a good idea when you want to save humanity from potential extinction.
The spaceship needs a crew, so the best idea is to draft a bunch of undergrads who spend 99% of their time rolling their eyes, arguing like teenagers, and failing every standard of discipline ever conceived for a military expedition.
Within two seconds, the jealous and unstable ex-captain stages a mutiny. The teenage crew is incapable of reasoning why this is bad and acting responsibly.
Back on Earth, Erik (who is the greatest scientist in the history of Science), discovers that the vessel appears to be communicating by - get this - audible waves. Thank God for his uber-scientist acumen, as every other scientist on Earth failed to make this observation, then quickly left the scene for good because there was a sale at Dunkin' Donuts.
As was the case in "Prometheus", the only character on the spaceship who has a lick of sense is the holographic computer. Which tells us we wasted a lot of effort and money crewing the ship with meatbags.
The ship travels FTL, but there is no discussion of the technology despite the fact it was very recently invented and deployed. Not only does it travel FTL, but it allows real-time video communication with Earth. This is also inexplicable, but it does make for dramatic FaceTime scenes between Niko (the greatest pilot ever in history) and Erik (the greatest scientist in the history of Science). Essentially, we have Star Trek technology in a Rollerball timeline.
I bailed. Fuck this show. GOOD NEWS THOUGH: after this idiotic sojourn into Galactic Stupidity, I switched to Amazon Video and watch "The Boys", which was fun, well-written, exciting, and completely engrossing.
Amazon-1, Netflix-0.
EDIT: I just read this in a review from Ireland's Independent: "The problem with Another Life is not the lack of originality; the problem is that it’s simply awful in almost every respect."
Like...OUCH.
It's another "space" show where the crew acts like they're on some third-rate reality show, that's all you need to know.
I could not start episode 2, the first was so bad. Their motivations and the crew in general were so unbelievable that I could not go on. Awful show.
https://youtu.be/UauWDakHQo0?t=3022
hmmm...
https://i.imgur.com/hPGr7tH.png
HMMMMMMMMMMMMM...
I'm confused about how this shit even gets made sometimes. There are a ton of talented film school students all over the world who would pay the studio for the opportunity to write a big budget sci-fi series for Netflix. And yet Netflix still goes and hires the accomplished writers from 'Dr. Mom', a 90's movie where Joe Pesci dresses like a woman so he can still practice medicine incognito.
How does Hollywood just keep creating endless garbage? Why does Netflix hire suits to greenlight pilots?
I really don't understand how, or why, Netflix originals have become such flaming shit over the past 5 years. Cheap SFX, god awful writing, even worse casting. It's like they stopped giving a shit. Netflix is the new release-to-Walmart DVD experience. Netflix is about to get fucked even before you consider Disney+ and Comcast's new streaming platform.
Netflix Original Series are getting so terrible now. I remember back when they first amped up the pace of these productions they were doing meticulous studies and focus groups about what people liked and disliked about tv shows. Now it seems they took all the dislikes and incorporate them into every series. Now it's coming to a head where it's just not worth it if the show doesn't get you in the first episode.
An hour and eight minutes.
That’s really how long you need to explain a bad show. That’s longer than the show. It would appear as if you actually love the show.
Thank God someone agrees.
It passed some time. That's about all that was truly good about it.