An honest review from someone who never watched the tv trailer, has never played any halo computer games and has never read a halo book - So here we go :) - I just decided to watch episode 1 without any knowledge of what the Halo tv series was about and by the looks of it, it's a sci-fi series which started off quite good - humans vs robots - which I immediately saw bore a close relation to Star Wars - I don't want to give too much away, but as you get further into the episode it reminded me a lot of another tv series called The Mandalorian - in fact the similarities are blatantly obvious, but as a first episode I am actually looking forward to seeing how the story develops - I have now watched the whole series (9 episodes) and have upgraded by original 4* review to 5* - just treat it like any other sci-fi series and make no comparisons if you already know about Halo and you will enjoy it - It has growth and there may well be a 2nd series