“Another Life” is DOA

It is such a great title: so I logged onto Netflix and saw this new sci-fi drama about a space voyage to discover the home land of a bunch of aliens who’d dropped a monolith on Earth but left no calling card.

The first sight of the alien artefact, however, was hugely disappointing. It looked like something out of "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century"- so very,  very below par. If you’re giving me alien thingies you’ve got to match “Arrival”. For God’s sake the sentinel in “2001” was way better than this piece of sub standard Lego.

After that I’m afraid I was looking for anything to damn this miniseries. And there was no shortage. From the annoyingly young and foul mouthed crew of space ship, the frightful husband of the spaceship captain left on Earth to suffer both the annoyance of not understanding the alien artifact and his pretty but sickening daughter, and the mega space ship's captain. She spends much  of her time either physically beating up her crew members or comatosed experiencing inexplicable Bobby Ewing type hallucinations.

The earth bound sequences, with the annoying husband were both boring and annoying. The space/spaceship sequences were loud, interspersed with nonsense and extra boredom.

I have to confess after two episodes I turned off the sound: no improvement. The nadir was the sub “Alien” scene when that poor girl found herself half dissected by some virus picked up on a free floating planet they happened upon. Honestly, if you can send a mega space vehicle at light speed to a distant star, surely you’d have basic Apollo 11 quarantine measures in place!

For me this proves that Netflix is an alien artifact tasked with boring to death a large section of humanity.

Thank God there’s still the cinema!