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Nightflyers

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Mixed or average reviews based on 14 Critic Reviews

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Nightflyers

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SyFy | Release Date: December 2, 2018

Summary: Eight scientists and a telepath traveling on The Nightflyer space ship to make contact with alien life begin experiences strange and violent occurrences in this adaptation of George R.R. Martin's novella (which also was made into a 1987 film).

Genre(s): Drama, Action & Adventure, Suspense

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The Hollywood Reporter

Dan Fienberg

Nov 30, 2018

Season 1 Review: Decently cast, interestingly claustrophobic and boasting occasional tiny bursts of inspiration, Nightflyers isn't going to suddenly hook those broad Game of Thrones demos, but there's an audience out there that's always thirsty for hard sci-fi and this is for them. Read full review

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Boston Herald

Mark A. Perigard

Nov 29, 2018

Season 1 Review: Nightflyers, like YouTube Premium’s “Origin,” features a wholly impractical spaceship design, one that is expansive and minimalist, with long corridors and plenty of convenient places for something to hide. What starts intriguingly turns sillier the deeper you go. Read full review

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The A.V. Club

Alex McLevy

Nov 30, 2018

Season 1 Review: There’s a sense all of this has been done before, and showrunner Jeff Buhler doesn’t quite know how to make it feel new again. It’s a testament to the pulpy dramatics of the source material that Nightflyers remains enjoyable to watch despite these weaknesses. Read full review

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IndieWire

Ben Travers

Nov 28, 2018

Season 1 Review: Not scary enough to be good horror and too simple-minded to be grand sci-fi, Nightflyers is just another schlocky TV show pretending to be more than it is. Read full review

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New York Magazine (Vulture)

Matt Zoller Seitz

Dec 3, 2018

Season 1 Review: Unfortunately, the show never alchemizes these touchstones into a fresh, distinctive aesthetic. And when projects like this aren’t capable of knocking you out with style, they’d better have vivid characters and a riveting story to fall back on, and that’s not the case here, either. Read full review

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CNN

Brian Lowry

Nov 30, 2018

Season 1 Review: A tediously generic haunted-house-in-space odyssey, one that Syfy is either (charitably) experimenting with or (more likely) rapidly exhausting by making all 10 episodes available simultaneously with its linear-TV debut. Read full review

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Reason.com

Glenn Garvin

Nov 30, 2018

Season 1 Review: The constant, clumsy back-and-forth story line is not [Buhler]'s only annoying affectation. He's also larded Nightflyer with references to other, better, works, from Star Trek to The Shining, probably intended in homage but really serving just to remind you how much better all of them were. And the abundant gore, no doubt a confused nod to Martin's original premise that horror and sci-fi can coexist in the same vehicle, serves no purpose at all. [Buhler] may think he's speaking in some advanced new artistic argot, but really, it's just a lot of outer-space jabberwocky. Read full review

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Apollo

Jun 2, 2019

Firstly: do not trust the critics. Have they been wrong before? If you love sci-fi and deep, tantalizing plots like me, you will love this show. It also has some horror elements and is very suspenseful, which can help draw people that don't like sci-fi as much into the scene (my girlfriendFirstly: do not trust the critics. Have they been wrong before? If you love sci-fi and deep, tantalizing plots like me, you will love this show. It also has some horror elements and is very suspenseful, which can help draw people that don't like sci-fi as much into the scene (my girlfriend loved it and she normally doesn't want sci-fi). This show has it all, psychotic AI, aliens (not what you might think), alternate dimensions, and edge-of-your-seat space action. You should be able to decide if you like the show by the 2nd episode.… Expand

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nattydread69

Jun 21, 2019

I really liked this show, its clever, spooky, well acted, interesting characters, its got netrunning, cyberpunk themes, some of the feel of event horizon, even the dead space games. Space horror is a genre which doesn't get much attention. Much better than some of the Hollywood dross that we get.

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Exgerex

Jan 16, 2020

I made an account just to review this....

So I started this series and was intrigued by George r Martin writing. I also love sci-fi. The first 3 episodes were fantastic, it completely got me hooked. They had a unique spin on things and I didn’t know what would happen next. I was so excitedI made an account just to review this....

So I started this series and was intrigued by George r Martin writing. I also love sci-fi.

The first 3 episodes were fantastic, it completely got me hooked. They had a unique spin on things and I didn’t know what would happen next. I was so excited to continue.

Then things just started getting bad. The Plot lines they developed started to take twists which made no sense.
The characters they developed did completely illogical things, and completely broke character.

It was like watching GOT episode 8 for the last 7 hours going wtf.....? It made no sense.
I was just at a loss for words for how bad the writing became.

I have to sadly not recommend this series.

The actors did great with what they were provided with though.… Expand

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AWESOM-0

Jan 18, 2020

I’ve tried to watch this show 3 different times. I’ve made it to episode 5 each time. I just can’t do it, I want to like it, but it really sucks.

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Lord_Volta

Dec 12, 2019

Read the book.

This show takes a 130-page short story and tries to make it last 10 hours. The writing is poor, obvious, or illogical. The characters show little depth and are infuriatingly naive. Like the title and George RR Martin's name, Nightflyers borrows many tropes from other horrorRead the book.

This show takes a 130-page short story and tries to make it last 10 hours. The writing is poor, obvious, or illogical. The characters show little depth and are infuriatingly naive. Like the title and George RR Martin's name, Nightflyers borrows many tropes from other horror movies and genres (many of which have little relevance to the plot) to create a mangled Frankenstein. For a Sci-Fi Horror, I couldn't stop laughing at the bad science and cheap scares.… Expand

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Skitterin

Jan 10, 2020

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This show is almost literally the worst. It's about a group of people, who from the get go hate each other, going on a long term voyage to meet some aliens. Or more like a amorphous blob of psychic energy. There's some pointless twists and turns along the way culminating in the fates of literally everyone going unresolved. They basically travel half way to another solar system just for one of the crew to, maybe, get to another dimension and live happily ever after with his wife that originally chose to forget him and his daughter that died. The ending leaves you going "What the Fu**", but not in a good way. Skip this, you'd be better off getting a colonoscopy.… Expand

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Series Overview
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: December 2, 2018
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