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Another Life

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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 8 Critic Reviews

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Mixed or average reviews based on 186 Ratings

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Another Life

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Another Life

Series Details & Credits

Netflix | Release Date: July 25, 2019

Summary: Astronaut Niko Breckinridge (Katee Sackhoff) leads a team to look into an alien artifact in this sci-fi drama from Aaron Martin and Noreen Halpern.

Genre(s): Drama, Action & Adventure, Science Fiction

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S2:E10. D-Day
Air Date: October 14, 2021
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S2:E9. What's Brought/What's Left Behind
Air Date: October 14, 2021
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S2:E8. Just a Rat in a Cage
Air Date: October 14, 2021

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Metascore

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4

Critic Reviews

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Collider Lauren Thoman

Jul 25, 2019

Season 1 Review: There is a much better, more emotionally affecting show lying just beneath the generically futuristic trappings of Another Life, but in its first season, it fails to develop its characters in a way that would give its extraterrestrial threats and space-horror scares any sort of significant weight. Read full review

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Rob Owen

Jul 17, 2019

Season 1 Review: The United Colors of Benetton crew fights among themselves a lot, but viewers get such slight sketches of each character in early episodes, it’s hard to care about many of them. At least the space stuff is more interesting than the homefront melodrama. Read full review

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The A.V. Club

Alex McLevy

Jul 25, 2019

Season 1 Review: Nitpicking sci-fi conceits is usually a waste of time (who cares how implausible a lovestruck robot fixing a ship’s FTL drive is?), but there are enough glaring omissions of logic in Another Life that it’s impossible not to get pulled out of the story at times. ... What the series does have is Sackhoff, and she’s more than up to the task of reminding the viewer why she’s anchoring this series. Whenever she’s onscreen, the show’s sophomoric writing instantly becomes more plausible Read full review

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New York Magazine (Vulture)

Matt Zoller Seitz

Jul 26, 2019

Season 1 Review: This is an earnest but hard-edged drama about extraterrestrial first contact and deep space exploration that Frankensteins together bits of classics and near-classics. But the the whole never congeals into an original statement. And the storytelling is so ungraceful that I got whiplash from the first four episodes. Read full review

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TV Guide

Amanda Bell

Jul 23, 2019

Season 1 Review: It's about the journey, not the destination. And what a weird, confused little journey it is. Read full review

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The Hollywood Reporter

Tim Goodman

Jul 22, 2019

Season 1 Review: There's really no other way around this — the work on Another Life is not good. The writing is atrocious, leaving the actors to follow a jumble of disconnected emotions or pointless journeys within their characters (or maybe they were just looking to escape) and the directing is...off. Read full review

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RogerEbert.com Brian Tallerico

Jul 25, 2019

Season 1 Review: “Another Life” has a complete lack of character development within Niko’s crew because they're too busy worrying and yelling. ... Blair and Sackhoff are always welcome presences on any show, and it’s telling how much the four episodes of “Another Life” that I could stomach simply annoyed me. Read full review

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User Reviews

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egusic9909

Aug 4, 2019

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Amazing TV show would love to see season 2. Would be very disappointed to be left hanging with season 1.… Expand

7 of 17 users found this helpful710

10

RomanHu

Oct 23, 2019

Tolle Serie! Ich hoffe sie wird weiter fortgesetzt! Weiter so mit sollchen Serien.

1 of 7 users found this helpful16

9

Rome

Sep 2, 2019

UPDATE: currently finishing up episode 8 and I'm genuinly impressed, very awesome show, great acting. I dont agree with the criticism of the writing, it's alright in my book. I promised that I would update my review once I have gone longer into the season and so here I am upping the score toUPDATE: currently finishing up episode 8 and I'm genuinly impressed, very awesome show, great acting. I dont agree with the criticism of the writing, it's alright in my book. I promised that I would update my review once I have gone longer into the season and so here I am upping the score to a solid 9; the season have only been getting better. Thumbs up!

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I dont understand all the negativity for this show. I watched the first episode (1 hour) and I have to say it's pretty intense and entertaining. I get that the premise doesnt make sense: that the US government would put these young seemingly inexperienced people that is not very good at cooperating together on a spaceship to another star system to meet the aliens/save humanity, it's a completely ridiculous premise. However, if you can get over that fact then it actually works. It makes for some interesting and entertaining drama and having Katee Sackhoff in the center of it is excellent, she does a great job. Im not sure it would have been so entertaining had the team members been die hard proffesionals. I mean what challenge would they face that we would want to see? Without the drama I wager it would be boring af. Tbh one of the things I really like about this shows is that it is damn intense and that makes it very watchable and entertaining. That being said, they could have gone out of the way to write up the premise much more believable.

There was some other inconsistencies that didn't make sense. I wont mention what it is because spoilers, but it's something that does detract a bit. I would have giving this 9, but the inconsistencies makes it go down to 8.

The shows production value is also very high. This is not the most important, but it does boost the already high entertainment value.

As mentioned Im only just begun with the show, so well, lets see how it goes, I only watched the beginning. I'll update my review/score in case things change.… Expand

1 of 5 users found this helpful14

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tuna_no_crusts

Sep 1, 2019

5 episodes in and I just don’t know what to think. I still think the show is building towards something, but I’m not even sure the writers knew what it was. What could have been an Interesting plot unfortunately let down by bad characters and writing. Best described as Friday night CW5 episodes in and I just don’t know what to think. I still think the show is building towards something, but I’m not even sure the writers knew what it was. What could have been an Interesting plot unfortunately let down by bad characters and writing. Best described as Friday night CW fodder. Also, let’s all agree that walking around on an alien planet without a space suit is generally a bad idea. And on asteroids. And eating space berries. And sniffing space flowers. And drinking space water. And basically touching anything in space barehanded. And not using the buddy system. And not checking for space spider hitchhikers.… Expand

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Darksabre812

Jul 28, 2019

This series is awful, there is no doubt about that. I could write an entire book as to why this series should be struck from television, but I would just be repeating what everyone else has said, so I am going to be specific:

Do any of the whiny children on this ship have jobs?? There isThis series is awful, there is no doubt about that. I could write an entire book as to why this series should be struck from television, but I would just be repeating what everyone else has said, so I am going to be specific:

Do any of the whiny children on this ship have jobs?? There is the sullen captain, the idiotic first mate, the panicky engineer, a confused civilian liaison, and the handsome computer hologram that does everything else. Every other person on this ship lounges around in their pajamas and rolls their eyes whenever work is mentioned. There is the overweight guy with a beard, a mean girl with an iPad, and other characters that blend together. None of them actually do anything. Their dialogue isn't even witty or fun. I mean, halfway through the first episode I was hoping the ship would blow up and the ACTUAL ship the show would be following with a likeable crew would show up. What a waste of money. Try again, Netflix.… Expand

11 of 14 users found this helpful113

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Gamegal32

Aug 3, 2019

Unbelievably horrible writing. They really had an opportunity to make a great sci-fi story but let it all fall short with gaping plot holes and unbelievable characters.

4 of 6 users found this helpful42

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Kretes

Dec 30, 2019

It’s like watching “Big Brother” show but in space. Perfect example of how to waste good subject/idea for tv show with trying to be way to politically correct... Sending a group of irresponsible amateurs to make a first contact with alien race...

2 of 3 users found this helpful21

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 2

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- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: October 14, 2021
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  S2:E10. D-Day
  Air Date: October 14, 2021
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  S2:E9. What's Brought/What's Left Behind
  Air Date: October 14, 2021
- tbd
  S2:E8. Just a Rat in a Cage
  Air Date: October 14, 2021
- tbd
  S2:E7. Never Gonna Give You Up
  Air Date: October 14, 2021
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  S2:E6. Gift From the Gods
  Air Date: October 14, 2021
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  S2:E5. A Better Earth
  Air Date: October 14, 2021
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  S2:E4. The Great Wheel
  Air Date: October 14, 2021
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  S2:E3. My Own Worst Enemy
  Air Date: October 14, 2021
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  S2:E2. Smoke and Mirrors
  Air Date: October 14, 2021
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  S2:E1. Live to Fight Another Day
  Air Date: October 14, 2021
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: July 25, 2019