Boring

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

We want a third season! I think that it's a great show.

Okay. I get as Americans we copy what works and make it better. Especially when it comes to UK tv, The Office, Sanford & Son etc. But this is just sad, this show was done the year before and in EPIC fashion. Go find a show called Utopia if you think this nonsense is good. The theme is the same but this show changed the delivery and it's no where near as good. I equate it to the 'New Coke' back in 1980 whatever. But to be fair, the whole thinning the herd, create a virus, create a cure thing isn't new at all. But this is predictable and boring

So what happens when you mix the Rocketeer, Monica Belucci's near twin, an actress (who somehow looks simultaneously like Emma Watson and Anna Kendrick) with a pool of preteen ADHD writers with restless leg syndrome? You get SyFy's Helix. Helix became my albatross. No matter how I tried to pry it from around my neck, it sucked me back in. "Helix must have been a good show, then!" you muse to yourself. Negative. It's attraction is more akin to the train wreck you can't turn away from than a compelling story that keeps you drooling for more. Not that you won't be drooling at the end of the series... a depakote overdose has a similar effect.Helix was interesting enough through S1E5, but after that the pretense of being a hard sci-fi show was gone. I finished the season out of a sense of duty. I don't know why when it was clear the script/continuity supervisor didn't. Several sharks got jumped in the last half of S1 and I had no intention of going on to S2.Then I found myself at home alone one Saturday afternoon while the spouse unit had the kids out Christmas shopping. Temptation struck and I booted up S2E1... I watched, not for the show's own sake, but to see how bad Helix would get... I was not disappointed. Season 2 took Shark Jumping to "eleven." There was no sci-fi/horror trope the writers were afraid to tap. Jim Jones style cult leader, check. Eyeball eating cannibals, check. Incest, check. Live fetus in a jar, check. Now imagine all of this wrapped in clunky dialog clearly written by ESL students who learned English by watching ONLY the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy and 1970's Oscar Mayer Weiner commercials. And through it all, the actors remained dead serious. You would have thought an Emmy were on the line. They deserve combat pay for having had to stick with this series. And there's my problem. Helix took itself too seriously all the time... in every scene and every episode. It was like watching Sharknado, performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company.

The only thing dumber than this show is that I watched the whole thing. If you're like me and hopelessly like sci-fi, this is yet another one of the many casualties you'll bang out along the way. I'm giving it 10 stars just to see if anyone actually reads these reviews. Five lines of text! #gotobed