Nightflyers

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.

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’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 ****.

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.

I had high expectations for this, because N and GRRM. And to be fair I might never watch worse sci-fi series based on someones actual book/story. Netflix sometimes does great stuff, but sometimes (to often in recent times) they produce something what is DOA.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

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.