Another Life is definitely NOT bad, but its definitely NOT good...
I am going to mention things that happen, but keep it spoiler free. This show on paper sounds great, but is constantly bombarded with poor execution. Another life is trying to mimic what good current TV shows do, and every time it just comes off as lack luster. People do die, and with the exception of one character, its all done poorly. They try to make it cool, and it comes off cheap. I can get past how the science doesnt make sense, but most situations are solved by Deus Ex Machina. Its just lazy writing.
There are moments of intense situations, but then all of a sudden characters are talking about their emotions in the middle of it. It breaks up these moments that could of been good. If these situations were real why in the heck would the characters just stop and say "Hey lets talk about our feelings...." There is a time and place, and often times the time and place they are doing it makes no sense. Its like coworkers that bring their outside life into work, please leave the issues at the door, and after work we can chat.
There are so so so so so many cliches, the kid who grew up on the street, but joined the military, who just so happened to meet a main character. Or a character slowly walking away giving up and as soon as the character turns around *boom* OMG IT WORKED! That happened like 5 times.... Some of the writing is so lazy to the point of saying "Oh yeah during the Second Great Depression". The world building is just not very good, instead of using inference or showing us through the environment they say things like "Oh yeah just 8 years ago we made FTL (Faster Than Light) travelling", well isnt that perfect, just in time for the alien civilization to visit. Aliens are literally called aliens throughout most of the season, and even after we find out the name, often times they still call them Aliens. Its so... Lame, we are not going to call them THE ALIENS, we are going to probably give them a name of some form.
The show uses cookie cutter characters that people tend to "like" because of the current times. The Token (fill in the blank), there are one of every kind so you can literally name one and its in there. Everyone in the show for the most part looks like an effing model... Like in what world?!?!?! Diversity and beauty is great, but when its so blatantly obvious they are only doing it for gold star stickers its annoying. The dialogue is pretty meh, too often we dont get to know characters as well as you would like to gain any feelings for them. William the AI was by far my favorite character, and is honestly a character I really ended up liking. Niko (Katee Sackoff) is good, but sometimes they try way to hard to make her Bada**. She isnt the issue, just the way they tried to portray her came off really try hard, not her fault just the editing/directing. Its like me, the second I try to do something (like write this review) I look dumb, but when I do it naturally it works hahaha.
Every episode ends with "From the frying pan and into the fire" every.... single.... one..... Its like 10 pans stacked on top of each other in a Volcano. It got so repetitive and very annoying. I laughed a lot during my viewing. I think the show has a decent concept, and I hope that in the future things will be executed in a better way. The framework is there. I love sci fi, so any decent sci fi show Ill give a shot. This is definitely not Netflix's version of The Expanse, but still some what entertaining Sci Fi Shenanigans, hopefully they take the criticism from actual critics and grow from it. I want every Sci Fi show to be good!