Patrick Gregg

*****SPOILER ALERTS CONTAINED***** Pure rubbish! The first season started with such potential, but unfortunately I don’t think the show runners thought it would catch on. What we’re left with for the following two seasons is a long dredge. Frankly, I would have preferred a 15 episode limited series. What we’re left with is a show about a bunch of teenagers saving humanity. Now, I’m not saying that premise is a bad thing, but it doesn’t deliver with Lost in Space. I so wanted this show to take us on a great ride of true science fiction and hope. What we were delivered was hardly close. Every character is at best two dimensional. The acting barely passes anything of quality. This is a particular disappointment to me as the first season had some character conflicts that could have made for better story telling. The use of Dr Smith was totally wasted. Posie Parker was given little to work with after season 1 and I think she knew it. She starts as a murderous grifter (outstanding) and finishes piloting the Jupiter 2. A skill she “learned by watching”. As for the rest of the cast (central and supporting) there’s little to say. Not one of them is convincing in their performances. At some points the acting is painful. When you look at reboots like BSG, Dr Who, Star Trek Discovery, and then compare them to other efforts at reboots like this, you see the risks that are taken. The original LiS was campy, bordering on horrible. However, it was the campiness that made it endure. The same goes for the examples I listed before. The original BSG wasn’t Emmy award winning story telling or acting, but it caught a wave and stayed with the public. Same can be said for Star Trek TOS as well as Dr Who. The reboots were inspired. Great character development, articulate story telling, top notch acting. I wanted so much from this series, but what we were given was a waste of time.