Too many ideas make for an unengaging narrative in this sappy sci-fi series. As two drab agents investigate the supernatural effects of the debris of an alien ship crashed to earth, they are racing against terrorists who are assembling the ship for ostensibly nefarious purposes. That would be enough for most decent shows, but instead the debris somehow brings the dead back to life only to feast on the living through psychic manipulation which can be thwarted by acts of love and care. Preposterous enough yet? Wait, different pieces of the ship have different supernatural characteristics, so we can look forward to an unpredictable circus of weird every week with an overarching cloak of a global cabal lingering in the background. The special effects are jaw-dropping, which is unfortunately counterbalanced by two leads with no charisma. It may be too early to tell if this swirling miasma of ideas eventually coheres into something more engaging, but the pilot did not pull me in.
