Pending Train (2023– )
10/10
Very good, character driven sci fi
28 September 2023
Entertaining and involving sci fi series, with focus on characters. The three leads are quite wonderful and engaging as strangers who cope with their pasts while thrust 40 years into the future. The main idea (think Manifest, Lost) is very well executed, not overly complex but coherent. Only ten episodes, there is a real tension created throughout, with each episode moving the story forward with good pace.

Acting is quite good by all, and allows many of the secondary characters to develop their own stories (using both real time action and flashback character development) in interesting and story advancing ways, and adding both dramatic and comic ways.

The concluding two episodes do something quite remarkable: they cleverly (and realistically) bring the series to conclusion, often quite emotionally, and offer up a way to continue the story.
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