I've watched all four episodes in a row and I find it very hard to believe that it will survive much longer. There are too many times where you are suspending your belief in reality, even times when you clearly should not be.
The show has a decent premise, and I'm curious about Beta, but not enough to keep me watching and, I seriously doubt it will make it through the first season.
- The way that these "astronauts" are portrayed makes me cringe. Not that I am an astronaut, but do you really think the male astronauts will be ogling and groping the female ones in a space program such as this? These people would have been fired for sexual discrimination long before they reached the level of a professional astronaut. Yes, it's a TV show, but, 'cmon... it practically makes them look like they're from the dark ages.
- The "science" and technology is pretty poor. I won't go into details for fear of adding a spoiler or two, but it's as if they are only halfway researching they way objects behave in space.
- The roles written for the actors are so standard, so "predefined"... Stereotypes I find almost laughable. Geeky guy, clueless foreigner, lusty woman, a scientist that's a prude... the list goes on. It's like canned melodrama and the woman speaking Spanish half the time (like some sort of older Dora the Explorer) really takes the cake. Again, annoying and obtrusive. The series would have been better without that addition.
The show has a decent premise, and I'm curious about Beta, but not enough to keep me watching and, I seriously doubt it will make it through the first season.