Quiet Muffin
This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.
Darin
One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.
Neagoe Bassarab
Refurbished theme from Sci-fi tool box of alien invasion. Sub-mediocre scenario with a contorted story. Halle Berry on high heels climbing on an escalator pit. The alien prospective suggested through a fuzzy image.
On the positive note, if you get to the second season you will not have to endure the lamentable acting of Goran Visnjic (John Woods).
aganiecha
The series is well made and has an interesting topic, but Halle Berry acts like an amateur and the actor playing Richter in S.2 is no better. The rest of the cast are doing great. Not bad but could have been better. My favorite character was Ethan and Lucy. Ethan died in S.1 but was 'happily' revived in S.2, probably on the viewers' request. It was much previsible. I prefer series which follow the story instead of giving in to general wishes. Ethan's revival ridiculed the whole dramatism of S.1 finale.I also hated what they did with the husband. The transition from S.1 to 2 was inexplicable, they destroyed his persona by this out-of-nowhere affair with Julie. It was apparent they wanted to make him less sympathetic to 'allow' Berry to have a thing with cartoonish Richter, brrr. Anybody agrees?
mgl-92037
Let me start out by saying that if ever a less talented actor or actress than Halle Berry won an Oscar, I would be surprised. She can't act---at all, in anything. If anything, the actor who plays her husband is worse, and they have less chemistry together than Lily Tomlin and John Travolta in Moment by Moment. To be honest, this is part of the "so bad it's good" element. I enjoy seeing them struggle through their lines, syllable by syllable, and sometimes even letter by letter, like children who have only learned the sounds of speech, or like aphasic stroke victims. It is just absolutely precious to watch them try to act. The robot boy is not a bad little actor. The absolute worst is Grace Gummer, the nepotistic no-talent who is also ugly as sin. My god, did Streep threaten the producer's children or something? Every scene with Gummer induces teeth grinding.If, over all the acting is mostly in the "so bad it's good category"---including the 0.5 dimensional Jeffrey Dean Morgan---the plot ranges from interesting to bad, bad, bad. The whole sexual dynamic with her hybrid alien "son" was beyond creepy. The "but it's my baby" screech from Halle Berry was offensively stupid. On the other hand, I found the concept of the show rather interesting, at the beginning, and I am a sucker for space stations, to be honest. The end of the second season was beyond bad---beyond horrible. Jesus would have refused to die for our sins if he knew that writing so bad was coming in the future.
jb_campo
This series had promise, but ended up being pretty mediocre. Halle Berry did her best, and her husband, and Ethan, did their best, but the story just crumbles into ridiculousness, leaving you flat.Halle comes back from 14 months alone in space and somehow, she is pregnant. Her family at home is her scientist husband and robot son, a humanich named Ethan. Think of ET except he looks just like a kid. What will the role of humanichs be? Who is this Japanese guy and what is he doing? What happened to HB in space?Don't expect too much drama here. There's not much of a plot to work with. And when you hear Halle Berry's description about her life at the beginning of every episode, you just cringe thinking - why did she take this stupid role? No mystery. No real drama. Just silliness.I cannot recommend Season 1 at all.
