Though the wikipedia and imdb page state it's a US-UK production, the credits actually show Canadian funding, and that might be a clue as to why this is so very so bad. Blame Canada!
Literally THE only character of any remote likeability is Billy the engineer. All other characters, and I mean all of them, are the dredges of humanity.
-The ship's owner is just straight up disgusting.
-His Asian sidekick might have been funny, given better material.
-The Captain, beyond pretending to be the captain, pretends to be human, and fails.
The Mission Control lady simply is not written as Mission Control, at all, a complete idiot, she certainly didn't go to school past age 7.
-The Captain has two "love" interests, but there's no "love" there, at all.
-The Head of customer relations behaves like a mix of a first year psychology student and Oprah Winfrey
Then there are the rest of the travellers, each and every one of them more disgusting humans than the other. I'm reminded remotely of the Scandinavian dark satire Triangle of Sadness, also meant to be "fun, let's laugh at the evil filthy rich", but first, such material needs to be funny, at least to some degree. Satire operates on funniness. I in theory LOVE laughing at the evil ways of filthy rich, but it still needs to be funny.
Maybe we've reached a point in society where the people writing the entertainment all live in such silos that they laugh at their own faeces, even though it's not funny, smelling their own farts I guess.
This show should not have been renewed for a second season, why it did is unimaginable. Seeing it ended after two seasons, I stuck with it, just in case the writers gave us a decent ending to close this mess. But they didn't. They should have let the missile hit the half of the ship with the fewest people, just for the sake of satire. Instead they ended with the cheapest optical illusion, Billy and the Cap, standing far from the rock, to make it look big.
The whole thing could have been written by kids in grade 2. It is that bad.
Literally THE only character of any remote likeability is Billy the engineer. All other characters, and I mean all of them, are the dredges of humanity.
-The ship's owner is just straight up disgusting.
-His Asian sidekick might have been funny, given better material.
-The Captain, beyond pretending to be the captain, pretends to be human, and fails.
The Mission Control lady simply is not written as Mission Control, at all, a complete idiot, she certainly didn't go to school past age 7.
-The Captain has two "love" interests, but there's no "love" there, at all.
-The Head of customer relations behaves like a mix of a first year psychology student and Oprah Winfrey
Then there are the rest of the travellers, each and every one of them more disgusting humans than the other. I'm reminded remotely of the Scandinavian dark satire Triangle of Sadness, also meant to be "fun, let's laugh at the evil filthy rich", but first, such material needs to be funny, at least to some degree. Satire operates on funniness. I in theory LOVE laughing at the evil ways of filthy rich, but it still needs to be funny.
Maybe we've reached a point in society where the people writing the entertainment all live in such silos that they laugh at their own faeces, even though it's not funny, smelling their own farts I guess.
This show should not have been renewed for a second season, why it did is unimaginable. Seeing it ended after two seasons, I stuck with it, just in case the writers gave us a decent ending to close this mess. But they didn't. They should have let the missile hit the half of the ship with the fewest people, just for the sake of satire. Instead they ended with the cheapest optical illusion, Billy and the Cap, standing far from the rock, to make it look big.
The whole thing could have been written by kids in grade 2. It is that bad.