“Nightflyers” premieres Sunday, December 2 at 10 p.m. Only then would the robot spiders really win. What’s sad is if it accepted its limitations, only then could it have fun within the genres it’s trying to eclipse.
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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. With so many shadows cast over the cold decor of your less-than-homey space vessel, all the bad things that happen feel worse and are made to feel more significant by the blaring vocal cues and horrified faces of a game cast.īut the relentless weight proves crushing long before you find out there’s nothing to crush. “Nightflyers” doesn’t so much have a tone as it suffers from seasonal affective disorder. You might get confused and then credit the show for being too advanced to keep up with, but really it’s just not providing necessary plot points.
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Sure there’s extra blood, extra darkness, and extra effects (which are quite good, honestly - even the spider robot), but the series is dependent on not telling the audience what’s going on in order to trick them into thinking something radical is happening. “Nightflyers” is the kind of sci-fi show that wants to be different from all the other sci-fi shows, even though nothing besides said desire separates it from the pack. He’s another character you’ve seen before - same powers, same arc, same generic bad-boy-with-a-heart-of-gold - made interesting for the fleeting moments when you don’t know who he is or what he can do. Karl to help communicate with the aliens, but his bloated notoriety at the start best mimics the show’s own misguided sense of grandiosity. In case it’s not already clear, there’s a lot going on in “Nightflyers.” Much of this review could’ve been dedicated to the dwindling importance of Thale (Sam Strike), a telepath brought onboard by Dr. Of course, he uses his knowledge of the ship to spy on everyone onboard, including Melanthia Jhirl (Jodie Turner-Smith), who knows he’s watching her bone down with other crew members, seems to like it, and may or may not start an earnest romantic relationship with the Cap’n to reward his perverted voyeurism.
How they manage to dull a story that includes a two-foot tall robot spider with red lasers shooting out of its eyes - a spider, mind you, with pretty great, albeit unintentional, comic timing - is through earnest, unceasing, and quite wearying self-seriousness. So much information is held back in Jeff Buhler’s 10-episode first season, and so many strange things keep happening (with unreasonably calm reactions from the people onboard), that “Nightflyers” quickly pivots from an intriguing foray into hard sci-fi to a confounding slog through the most boring blackness of space. The mysterious destructive force plaguing the characters also ends up leveling the series.
Well, someone might know, but despite an “accident” involving glass that makes John McClane’s barefoot jog look pleasant and creepy ghosts trolling passengers in the hallways, well, no one’s saying what’s up. It malfunctions a lot, and no one knows why. You see, the technology onboard the eponymous spaceship, the Nightflyer, is malfunctioning. Not that far into “ Nightflyers,” Syfy’s bleak adaptation of George RR Martin’s bleak 1980 sci-fi novella, a large mechanical spider starts shooting up the crew with searing red laser beams.
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