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Nightflyers
Season 1 Premiere: Dec 2, 2018
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5.5
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Metascore
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Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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0% Positive
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93% Mixed
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7% Negative
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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.
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.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 90 User Ratings
5.5
42% Positive
38 Ratings
38 Ratings
22% Mixed
20 Ratings
20 Ratings
36% Negative
32 Ratings
32 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 90 User Ratings
5.5
42% Positive
38 Ratings
38 Ratings
22% Mixed
20 Ratings
20 Ratings
36% Negative
32 Ratings
32 Ratings
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 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.
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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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Nightflyers lacks [Alien's] sci-fi/horror gravitas; it’s murky at best, both in its storyline and its character development, and grinds along at a snail’s pace trying to construct its elaborate scenario. It does boast terrific special effects and an abundance of blood and gore, both of which are used generously.
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.
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.
Nightflyers is no fun. It's a grim, drab, thematically underdeveloped plot delivery system. It's a network show with a bigger budget and more blood.
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.
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 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.
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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 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.
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Production Company:
- Syfy
- Fevre River Packet Co.
- Gaeta / Rosenzweig Films
- Hypnotic
- Universal Cable Productions
- Bord Scannán na hÉireann / The Irish Film Board
- Investment Incentives for the Irish Film Industry Provided by the Government of Ireland
- Carolco Films
Initial Release Date: Dec 2, 2018
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-MA
Awards
Visual Effects Society Awards
• 1 Nomination
Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA
• 1 Nomination
