I think this is the best description: Sky's poorly received Intergalactic is a genre rarely seen, a honest-to-Blake very British sci-fi. A space-convict caper wrapped around a political intrigue story with environmental overtones - it rarely stops for a minute, is hugely melodramatic, has more twists than a curly-wurly, some genuinely shocking moments and boasts a fairly likeable core cast of characters (including the deeply watchable Thomas Turgoose as a hapless prison guard). Is it good? Not especially, but I'm deeply glad it was made and had a serious lark watching it. Let's hope the lukewarm reaction doesn't damn us to even less Brit sci-fi going forward.
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on 2021-11-26 11:37 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2021-11-27 12:34 am (UTC)Sky's poorly received Intergalactic is a genre rarely seen, a honest-to-Blake very British sci-fi. A space-convict caper wrapped around a political intrigue story with environmental overtones - it rarely stops for a minute, is hugely melodramatic, has more twists than a curly-wurly, some genuinely shocking moments and boasts a fairly likeable core cast of characters (including the deeply watchable Thomas Turgoose as a hapless prison guard). Is it good? Not especially, but I'm deeply glad it was made and had a serious lark watching it. Let's hope the lukewarm reaction doesn't damn us to even less Brit sci-fi going forward.