Somewhere Between
A sci-fi drama, with thriller intensity, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. Really great stuff if you're much like me and enjoy debating with others about the plot, all while being on the very edge of your seats.
Paula Patton's character is quite the complex role too - a deranged and broken mom facing a long period of heartbreak, then thrown into what I can only describe without giving anything away, a total dumbfounding roller coaster of a situation which leads her character into a desperate and somewhat crazy quest. Something that Patton seems to portray well enough. If only the director took more care in knowing when to do a close up or long pan shot when she is in a serious scene, the feel would be more conveyed without compromising Patton's credibility. There are even some scenes you think the director took right out of Arrow's b-roll, then again, it does add this 80s vibe that is certainly the trend on the sci-fi series front as of late - what year is it again?
Directing aside, Devon Sawa is really stealing the show and was a surprise to see him pulling his weight against JR Bourne, who is a favourite of mine since appearing as Dr Carter's love interest in Stargate the series. Both leading men have a great intensity playing off one another and their roles are both well developed and intriguing. Sawa plays a gritty deadbeat PI with a shocking past, while Bourne is a suave district attorney and family man, with perfect blue eyes and peppery silvery hair. Great actors can be pretty on the eyes too.
Rating it, the show has all the ingredients of a 10/10 sci-fi series, with just enough twists and turns to give you whiplash that you don't mind having. However, the direction of filming does pull away somewhat in the moments that count. Watchability 6/10. Overall, the context and actors lend the show enough for Netflix to save it, 8/10.
A sci-fi drama, with thriller intensity, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. Really great stuff if you're much like me and enjoy debating with others about the plot, all while being on the very edge of your seats.
Paula Patton's character is quite the complex role too - a deranged and broken mom facing a long period of heartbreak, then thrown into what I can only describe without giving anything away, a total dumbfounding roller coaster of a situation which leads her character into a desperate and somewhat crazy quest. Something that Patton seems to portray well enough. If only the director took more care in knowing when to do a close up or long pan shot when she is in a serious scene, the feel would be more conveyed without compromising Patton's credibility. There are even some scenes you think the director took right out of Arrow's b-roll, then again, it does add this 80s vibe that is certainly the trend on the sci-fi series front as of late - what year is it again?
Directing aside, Devon Sawa is really stealing the show and was a surprise to see him pulling his weight against JR Bourne, who is a favourite of mine since appearing as Dr Carter's love interest in Stargate the series. Both leading men have a great intensity playing off one another and their roles are both well developed and intriguing. Sawa plays a gritty deadbeat PI with a shocking past, while Bourne is a suave district attorney and family man, with perfect blue eyes and peppery silvery hair. Great actors can be pretty on the eyes too.
Rating it, the show has all the ingredients of a 10/10 sci-fi series, with just enough twists and turns to give you whiplash that you don't mind having. However, the direction of filming does pull away somewhat in the moments that count. Watchability 6/10. Overall, the context and actors lend the show enough for Netflix to save it, 8/10.