Really Surprised!

Don't listen to the negative reviews

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

The script isn't that terrible, although I suspect the premise of the film carries it somewhat. It was a shame that it has been so poorly produced.Every piece of the story is labored and is a perfect example of how modern films are scared to leave anything to the imagination. An example is the scene in what presumably is the White Situation Room or PEOC. The President has just shouted orders at people while repeatedly reminding the viewer that he is the President. He gets a message saying the Nasa Administrator is on the phone, and answers the phone as "President {such and such}". I get it, he is the President. Tedious.

In addition to all the scientific malarkey discussed previously....the script is infantile, amateurish......can I be more direct.Where do they find these writers? The concept had a lot of potential as a real good suspense drama...but they had to put in lines like "it's really deep"...about the chasm. And the world is about to end but Mathew M and his partner scientist spend time re-connecting.....wow!!!An elite task force with automatic weapons is held off by two citizens with handguns. I know that they likely did not have the $ that a series like "24" has, but lord have mercy it doesn't take a rocket scientist to put together a realistic, mature screenplay. I could go on and on about the silliness of the script but I'm too ticked off about a potentially good story being wasted away by such infantile dialog and situations. Simply infantile!!

Going into the second episode, however, there are some pretty significant issues with the main antagonist.There's just no background or reason for many of the things that the antagonist does. It's irritatingly irrational and the product of weak writing. The world is ending and everything is burning around you, and you're going to relentlessly hinder the one person who can help save mankind? For what purpose? To what end? This character just makes no sense. He's written as though he's suffered some sort of horrible psychotic break. It may have been mildly interesting if there was some sort of buildup that showed it was due to guilt or stress, but sadly this is not a series that strives for depth.I watched it over the span of a few days just for entertainment during my meals. I don't regret watching it, but it would be the bottom of my Netflix queue.

I agree completely with Ed Blackadder's review. Why is it so very difficult for the writers of scripts that pretend to be "science" fiction to ask even a serious amateur science enthusiast to review their scripts (I'd do it for free) to catch their innumerable errors and misrepresentations of natural phenomenon? Did the writers of this bad joke sleep through their grade school and high school science classes? Apparently. And they must also believe that everyone else did, too.If you are a SCIENCE fiction fan, you'll want to skip this one unless you want to watch for a few laughs. However, that probably won't hold you through the entire show. I stopped watching to write this after the hilariously wrong satellite sequence about 20 minutes in. Gawd...