This show was really good at suggesting interesting things might happen, to then only focus on the mundane.

Little known fact about Event Horizon: Dr Weir actually saw a vision of this series from the future and that's why he scratched his own eyes out.

For me, the whole thing started to fall apart when the baby disintegrated. It made no sense and was never explained, and everything else just sort of fell apart after that moment. The reveal and resolution of Cynthia (when Lommie locked her away) would have been fine if they'd then pivoted more strongly toward the Volcryn and it's effects on the crew's psychology. In fact it would have been great if they'd brought the Volcryn and Cynthia stories together by having the crew utilise the latter to help resolve the former. But that didn't happen and the Volcryn "effect" was never fully realised, which left those last few episodes feeling pretty flat.

I just became aware of this show yesterday, and binged it in two days. On day one I was thrilled, so great, much excitement. Just finished the last episode and my literal reaction to the end scene was "Oh fu*k off..."

Someone watched Alien, Event Horizon, and Solaris and was like “wicked I’m gonna do what they did, but worse”

You've hit the nail on the head with this AWESOME review. Watched every episode hoping for a satisfying pay off, but it never came. Nightflyers was just a huge pair of blue balls.

i just watched NIghtflyers , my eyes are tired from eye rolling

I just binged this show , not knowing anything about it and I was confused the whole time. So many different plot stories that were all left unanswered 🤔

I was actively wanting to toss most of them out of an airlock by the end of season one.

So, why did we even get the scene with Agatha launching the probe to warn others not to attempt to rescue or salvage the Nightflyer? She solved the problem by killing herself.

This shows looks like what would happen if Michael bay had a brother who was into making horror movies. It’s just a bunch of stuff.

Wasting 10 hours of my life was worth it for this 8 minute video. At least I got to laugh this off thanks to you. I feel exactly like you, the beginning few were awesome and then it went into the toilet

I read the book just yesterday, and was excited to watch the series, because i really enjoyed reading it. They literally took a 130 page short story and took almost EVERYTHING interesting out of the story. The first 1 and a half pages was more interesting than the whole show. Hearing about the passage of time and how other planets and other races on those planets have old stories about this creepy alien ship and building this sense that theres plently of life around the galaxy, including (thought to be) long dead alien races like the Hrangans, and talked about all these other ineterest planets, as if earth is old news and a almost pointless lump of dirt now that they can travel around to other habitable planets. Not to mention, giving them slightly more interesting names...you know....what with it being the fucking future...a minute into the show just thinking "who the boring earth fuck is Karl??" and then the motivation of the story.. ohh earths dying (check) first time meeting alien (check) everyone at eachothers throat for un needed tension (check) yup, that checks all the marks for things iv literally seen a million times over in every single sci fi show or movie. Whats wrong with having a guy super obsessed with finding these aliens? and a academic crew behind him feeling the same way??? That's what interested me early on in the book. THE MYSTERY OF AN OBSESSED PERSON'S LIFE WORK. Not the standard wham bam thank you mam finished in 3 minutes "earth is dying" bullshit. Fuck this show, fuck modern tv. Taking anything remotely fantastical and grounding it back down to the boring same cliche's and standard plots. The imagine i drew up when reading it was so much more interesting. They described Melantha as a head taller and bulky as fuck, contantly saying she was the upgraded version and whatnot. Making this image of this badass 7ft tall weightlifer looking (not bodybuilder...weightlifter) but instead its just a slender slightly muscled average height lady? Where the beefy warrior aspect of her? or the whole crew general. There's no need to make all the crew instantly at eachothers throat and all hate on the L1, in the book, sure Thale was a bit weird and people where slightly nervous around him, but they would all sit around a table and casually have dinner and whatnot? Why the fuck would you need to lock him away and turn him into a complete pyscho? And ofcourse the worst part. THE WHOLE POINT WAS THAT THE SPIRIT OF THE CAPTAINS MOTHER IS CONTROLLING THE SHIP, ALONG WITH THE CAPTAIN HELPING, TRYING MORE, TO MAKE SURE SHE DOSENT DO ANY HARM TO THE OTHER PASSENGERS, WHY THE FUCK ARE THERE HUNDRED OF PEOPLE WALKING AROUND DOING POINTLESS SHIT? THE WHOLE POINT WAS THAT SHE WAS A LONER, SHE DIDNT WAS PEOPLE, SHE MADE THE SHIP SO SHE COULD OPERATE IT BY HER SELF, AND SUDDENLY ITS NOW A FUCKING SPACE STATION WITH HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE ON???? You get this much more creepy vibe in the book. It's only 9 people, and while all friendly and open with eachother (faar more than in the show) there's also this slightly side eye look everyone has of eachother, and they're on a small ship with weird things happening. Not a fucking valley of a space station. Sorry about that, i just really needed to vent after watching the show. Make D&D look like some kinda TV wizards in comparison. Steer clear of anyone involved on this. They turned a 130 page, interesting short story into a bland boring same old 10 part cancelled after 1 season sci fi channel special.

This show really came and went huh?

I was cursing at my tv so much my dog kept leaving the room. I'm letting him sleep on my bed tonight so he knows I'm not mad at him.

I just binged on netflix and enjoyed it until the last two episodes. Somehow there are no comms on the ship and you must speak face to face, Mel becomes so wishy washy that after traveling millions of miles to get 3 feet from the destination and try to convince people to turn back because it could be dangerous which they knew all along. Three minutes later she says we have come to far so let's do it. The psychic who can read everyone's mind all the time never tells anyone about people sabotaging themselves, the two men who try to destroy everything somehow become two of the men to help save it. I could go on, but I need to find the writers and end their careers before they cause anymore egregious stupidity.

It went downhill so quickly!!!!!! I need the answers to everything that happened in each episode lol

I so needed you through the second half !!!!! I was so confused!!! Don’t leave us half way through a series again PLEASE

They probably thought they would get a second season so they didn't care about the ending. Guess what suckers, dream on about that second season 😂

I actually really enjoyed it rip

GRRM's novella is actually really great, it's a shame they neutered it. The volcryn doesn't directly cause people to go insane, it just takes psionic abilities to over 9000 and things devolve from there. A Cronenberg Nightflyers adaptation would have been straight up incredible.

It was a mess. I told both of my brothers not to finish the series because it went nowhere ... satisfying.

Yeah, this was a weird one. Started really slow, got really good in the middle and then completely collapsed at the end. I'm always puzzled how initially good and well executed series can collapse into a puddle of nothing so quickly.

Yeah as soon as it showed Cynthia as the source the shows interest to me really went away especially when the captain was still being a mommy’s boy after a life of torturing him , it really was good at first when the L was the suspect but there’s another entity blaming him but damn I had to get high just to finish this show .

Thank God for this video. I was on Episode 5 and could already see the red flags, but thought that maybe I should still try to finish it. Now I know I don't have to!

Take out the weird the ship is my mom.... and put in more Thale also more lore like of the volcryn research, what’s happening on earth, the other colonies, the dissolving baby and it would have been awesome.

Wait. If Roy is a robot, how did he make poop for them to get out of the pipe?

Thanks for making this video I was so close watching it.

Thanks. I've gotten into the habit of watching reviews before wasting my time watching any series on Netflix. Glad I did too. Looks like you just saved me quite a bit of time.

This just proves that when you're good at the sword and sorcery genre, does not mean you can do the sci-fi genre. Robert E Howard also wrote westerns but his most successful work was the Conan character.

Well, that’s ten hours of my life I’ll never get back. This better not get renewed.

Thank you Sir. You saved me a couple of hours of my life. I actually started Episode 2 and like you said: The person you like suddenly started behaving akwardly...

I think the most interesting thing about the series was not the series itself but more the psychological breakdown of the characters. They all became very self serving and narcissistic at some point after being on this ship for so long and seemed to literally forget the whole point of being there. After a while all the characters seemed to only be interested getting what they wanted and finding pleasure instead of looking at the bigger picture. The situations that took places only really served to show everyone’s mental break down on the ship as they got closer to the goal. Even when they found the other ship floating in space all if them had gone crazy as well. Then while the ships crew was losing their mind, they had the nerve to say the women happily living as cannibals floating in space were crazy. The scariest part of this series was the people themselves and how self obsessed and lacking in ability to have compassion and understanding of each others emotions and personal needs. Seemed like the only character that had some sort of emotional functionality was Lonnie and she was trying to escape being in the middle of everyone’s drama. I didn’t hate the show but there were some stupid plot holes. Like if the baby died cause it was infected with black mold why didn’t the mom die first? How did the baby get infected if the mom wasn’t infected. Smh… that whole episode made no damn since. And where did it come from in the first place. The mold would have had to been contracted from somewhere outside that room for the baby to get infected to begin with. Smh… it is what it is. I wouldn’t mind reading the original story.

3:53 And don't forget 'Cerebro' from X-Men with crazy vision traversing the 'catwalk'. That was thrown in there, too.

So say we all!

The only people, I repeat, the only people who I would trust with any of Martin's works are the Coen brothers and that's about it. These guys... I wouldn't trust them with GRRM's farts.

on the baby part. its mentioned in the episode that space voyage protocols "all birth must be terminated if were consent in space" and right afterward we see why. the mold inside the baby mutated using his cells becoming some form of a disease. so yeah that make some form of sense. and rowan blaming the aliens for that is perfectly natural. for rowan snapping, also make sense. you just imagine that you build a life and out of nowhere you lost everything in less then an hour, and then imagine that he could have saved some of that if your friend gave more of a damn. and now imagine that he concluded its all your fault in the first place and your psyche cannot simply accept that. and btw Goerge RR Martin has written the book the show is based on. he did not work in this show

Okay, thought I was the only one that found the show confusing. I only watched it because George R.R Martin. One of my biggest issues are the characters and plot. There isn't enough character development, it's like the rushed through the whole thing. Maybe I expected too much? The plot just doesn't make sense, at the end I was like so what happened? Don't get me wrong I like complex plots that make you think, but idk felt like a mess, and I didn't know what to make of it myself. Glad I stumbled onto this video. I literally was lost for the whole season? Or was this the whole tv show? So many questions, and it's like the further the show progresses the more questions that arise. Maybe someone can make out what the tv show is trying to show? I'm kind of tempt to rewatch it maybe I missed somethings? Idk lol

“Thanos dying baby” lmfao! I lost at the restaurant

Clearly they were setting up a second season then got cancelled. Honestly, im sick of watching shows that start off really good that end without any resolution.

Glad I'm not the only one left wondering wtf was up with the spore-infested baby. The entire show was -- hey, here's this crazy thing with no explanation and people acting crazy because reasons. I get that the alien force makes people crazy, but that still doesn't explain the deadly spores, the time-warped probe with organic components, and the dimension-hopping leader. BTW, what exactly is he going to do in an alternate reality where his daughter is alive when he finds out his alternate self is on the Nightflyer in that universe also? Another thing... if Roy was created to be a living heir because AI has no rights, what's the point of having him if he lives in a test tube and remote-controls a robot or shows up by hologram? Can't the AI also remote control the robot or holograms just as easily?

Thank you so much for this 😘

After every episode I said to myself Think Story please review this episode, especially after I seen the time jump. I was so confused without you 😩

no build up, no payoff, no bark, no bite. Uwe Boll would have done a better job. In his sleep. Please tell me that no season 2 was ever planned. Say it isn't so.....

It started fine, then I was like homer simpson watching the BBQ pig flying "It's still good, still good" and my gilfriend by my side: "It's gone"....me: "I know". Promising but It ends like a salad of topics and scenes that pretend to be shocking.

I'm so happy people do these reviews, I was just about to start watching this, and thought, I better look just in case.

Thanks for adequately expressing my thoughts and feelings about the show. Right after finishing I went to look for other people's reviews and found a similarly critical review on a german news outlet. Under it one user comment that was praising the show. That comment made me so angry that I made an account to write my own comment, thrashing the show. My biggest complaint was that it felt like a cheap soap opera, with all the sci-fi just there for background decoration.

This series was a heap of everywhere, but I must say that the concepts in this movie were fun. I.E. the A.I., the porting concept, the Eagle, and Roy. Of course, I do agree that these concepts were entirely too underdeveloped and underexplained.

zomfg! Thank you for putting in words what I couldn't. You summed it up perfectly. This series was like a mess of lose cords and none led to anything.

5:26 A combination of the energy and the two telepaths on the ship. Them being both on the ship was causing feedback, amplified by the energy.

Does anyone remember the original movie that this is based on? The original Nightflyer started Cathrine Marie Stewart from The Last Star Fighter.

Perfect summation!

To be completely honest, I actually really liked it. There were a lot of plot holes but at the same time if you don’t pay too much attention or over analyze it, it’s a pretty Good Friday night binge show

This was the biggest pile of shite I've seen in a long time. A completely convoluted and atrocious mess with no payoff in the finale. I like a good sci-fi show story for the willing suspension of my disbelief but a lot of it makes no sense and not on purpose, just terrible direction and plot with the likes of a character murdering people in a homicidal breakdown on a contained spaceship, then in the next episode he's alright and no one ever mentions it again. I mean what?! It's currently rated 6.4 on IMDB which I think is about 3.4 more than it deserves. I wasted 10 hours of my life watching this garbage and I'm pretty angry about it...this is my deep space warning to you...Stay Away.

I kinda liked it, but you are right about every single deficiency you mentioned. Also another one: What was up with that "warning" that Athana sends out before suiciding?! Why did she have to send that out, even so much that she chose it over defending herself?! Later it is said that she killed herself so that the mission could _continue_, to break the feedback loop. If her suicide was the solution, why send out a warning? And who is going to pick it up anyway, as they are so close to the Volcryn and steering right into them? It seems like that was just placed in there to spoil a bad ending in the opening scene that would actually never happen, which of course is nothing but aggravating once you get to it in episode 9.

TS, thanks! Now I can’t help but say your closing line from AHS right along with ya! SyFy is notorious for putting out shows that leave unanswered questions. (Cough) Blood Drive! But thank you for trying your damnedest to explain everything in a way that won’t make our brains leak out our ears.

I love your model tone voice explaining this.🤣🤣🤣

Just finished it, it was difficult to get through it, so many frustrating plotholes or stupid things. One that you didn't mention is Why did Roy offer the trip in the first place?!?! If Cynthia didn't want to go, she who's screaming at him all the time, basically controls the ship, why and how did he do that?!?!?!?! Another thing that bothered me was the "protocol" that said the all space pregnancies were supposed to be terminated... in a colony ship? And no one is really surprised that she's preganant, there's equipment for it and a doctor, how is that a protocol??

"Plots so thin even I can see through.." -T pain playing stevie wonder lol

Weren’t they all going crazy because of the Teke energy? That’s how I understood it and Mel actually talked a lot about the robot thing. She didn’t go as crazy as the others.

Just saved me 10+ hrs of my life. Thank you

😄 I love your commentary. "that baby"

Most space horror movies (all?) are like this. People that are going to be sent in a space mission are supposed to be the best individuals humanity can produce. The smartest, healthier, the toughest, most focused. Ofcourse even astronauts have faults, but it's really hard to keep watching it when the characters are so stupid and make the worst decisions possible, constantly.

Yikes, Well thanks for taking that bullet for us. I had planned on sitting down with this at some point but thanks to your sacrifice I have so much extra free time now. Much appreciated mate XD!

I agree with absolutely everything said in this video. The worst part of all was the ending.. oh lord, what a massive turd. Subscribed! 👍🏽 You should have a list of recommended sci-fi series or movies!

Wasn’t that bad. I liked it overall

Thank you 🙏 You summed this crap up well

Thanks for posting this. I had to buy the book to feel better.

This series of break downs reminds me of a movie with similarities. Except the ship's AI was a real woman, her son is flesh and had never been outside the ship his whole life. He was quarantined to the Captain's chamber because his immune system was never exposed to bacteria or viruses. AI mommy went crazy and killed all but one of the passengers. Surviving female passenger and "son" leave the ship at the end.

Awesome video

I was really into it but by the 3rd ep. I just couldn't continue. Glad I looked up this review. Saved me a bunch of hours.

Is there gonna be a second season? (i hate open/cliff hanger endings) Tbh i didn’t mind the series it was ok to binge watch

0:14 YUP Seems like how Jim Carry would react to an axe kill xD

My favorite channel lol

Does the 1987 version have So-many-holes!? You forgot to mention that the L3 was so powerful that her boyfriend couldn't touch her without his eyes bleeding, but, crazy axe guy was able to throw her around the room without one jolt?! WHATEVER. The technology was absurd, why wouldn't an emergency manual override switch be somewhere easily accessible?! Why are there floatation tanks that cannot be opened from the inside manually? WHAT is up with the medical scenes? How can they be so far behind where we are now (didn't try to resuscitate the baby or do an emergency C-section) But can cure serious burns overnight? Why did they say that the L1s heart would fail with a barely elevated heart rate of 110 and an oddly ideal blood pressure of 120/80? WTH was up with those man rape machines? How were they supposed to work?

I believe Rowan going crazy is linked to Agatha not being able to control her developing L3 powers. They mention an L3 made a bunch of people go crazy and that's why everyone hates L3's. Once Agatha kills herself Rowan goes back to normal. Although why it only seemed to affect Rowan is another mystery.

where can i get the best space hot-dog?

I seem to be out of a parellel universe, because I actually enjoyed the show. I soaked up the lost in space atmosphere. And I totally loved the end.

On an earth saving mission they decided to send the most unprofessional crew ever

That's life in the Thousand Worlds universe. BTW its an animal that drives people insane so to speak, a lot of people are going to be disappointed with the GOT ending if this disappointed them,,lol.

Thanks, now i can keep it playing while i sleep. I was hoping it was as good as the expanse.

Agreed. So much potential

Why did we get the scene with Agatha killing herself at the very start? Whats that I can feel slipping away? Oh yeah all the mystery and tension. Great review btw!

Almost a minute in (this video, that is) and I just can't shake The Cloverfield Paradox vibe I'm getting from this.

I tried with this show, I really did. Some weird stuff happened, but I had hope it would all tie together in the end. But then a baby disintegrated and I was to lost to keep going

I agree with almost everything you said. However, Mel did in fact point out that people was forgetting about the mission at hand. But otherwise good point. I will say the reveal about the captain was genuinely shocking, especially the final, FINAL reveal about him.

_The seeeeeeeed_ Can we get space travel please? I need to meet this ship... for science.

Haven't watched it yet but... I am pretty sure that it was referred to as the first season? Doesn't mean there will be a second one to follow on it though...

I actually thought the show was amazing but I guess I'm the only one that feels that way

Did everyone involved in this mess just forget how to make a story that has works🤦‍♂️

Question: What's an 'AL?' Do you mean A.I.? Currently watching Lucifer, Seven Deadly Sins, and (for some reason) Dragon Pilots, and this was on my to-watch list until this video, so I'm just curious.

honestly, this flew under my radar.

Have you seen the series The Magicians?

It at least got David Ajala on Star Trek's radar, which he became Booker in DIS.

Is it me or is Nightflyers more like the KZfaq series Origin ?

The Aliens, and their psychic crap was far more interesting and compelling than weird Mom AI. Should’ve focused on Thale and the alien more.

Did they ever explain why there was random killer spores in the baby??

I saw some really silly plot holes... Like Cynthia calling Auggie a "glorified" truck driver. Like why would she do that? And Auggie being second in command, doesn't know that the lifeboat only holds one person? LOL. But I could have lived with all the plot holes... until the ending of the last episode? So many movie or show endings have pissed me off before, but this one takes the cake! Without a doubt, the STUPIDEST ending of all time.

Isn’t this only on Netflix in the UK? Sounds like it’s only vaguely related to the source material.

on point!