Another Life

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Season 1
  • Network: Netflix
  • Series Premiere Date: Jul 25, 2019
Season #: 2, 1
User Score
3.7

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 101 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 28 out of 101
  2. Mixed: 14 out of 101
  3. Negative: 59 out of 101
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  1. iainw
    Jul 27, 2019
    5
    I watched the full series since it had just enough hold on me to keep going. Unfortunately it is so flawed that the experience is irritating rather than entertaining. A predictable succession of sci-fi tropes which nevertheless DOES leave me wanting another series but hoping they will make a better job of it.
  2. geralt1
    Jul 26, 2019
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The UFO in the opening scene was impressive. I like Katee Sackhoff, I don't get why she let the mutineer roam free but I guess she thought her 'talk' with him was sufficient. I'm just at the beginning and so far it's not too bad.… Expand
  3. ComandanteCobra
    Aug 19, 2019
    5
    Below average... but we will see Season 2 (If the show will be renewed), because there is margin for improvement.
    The good: Sci-fi more focused around people and less on pew pew...a rare things this days
    The bad: Protagonists (except niko) look and behave more like characters from a soap opera than believable ship personnel or scientists. The show take place in space but most of the    Below average... but we will see Season 2 (If the show will be renewed), because there is margin for improvement.
    The good: Sci-fi more focused around people and less on pew pew...a rare things this days
    The bad:
    Protagonists (except niko) look and behave more like characters from a soap opera than believable ship personnel or scientists.
    The show take place in space but most of the time we only see ship internals and corridors or caves ...not much scenography creativity here..and feels cheap
    Weird narrative: In the first 2 or 3 episodes there is a main plot that progress with the show (One episode events affects the next and the main storyline )...but later the show seems more "singles episodes" oriented with protagonists dealing with problems marginally related to the main storyline ...like finding food, ship malfunctions, planets exploration...so the main plot struggle to advance.
    Most of the events inside this "singular episodes" take inspirations from classic sci-fi stories ...from Star trek episodes to Doctor Who...so if you ever watched one of those shows (even casually) this Another Life can appear plagiarized and will fail to surprend    … Expand
  4. Nobilis1984
    Jul 26, 2019
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Review episode 1:
    Episode 1 starts well and the spaceship gets better. Disturbing is the strange story about the mutineer. He's not captured like one on Star Trek. No after the rumors Sackhoff prevents death and he is allowed to walk around freely? Why does one write such a scrap? In the end he tries to kill Sackhoff. Who that was not clear.
    Effects and etc. are but first class.
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    I have all 10 episodes. It was a tough job for me. The characters are useless for their positions. It seems like you have chosen the worst.
    The story until episode 7 are nasty. Who comes up with that?
    From episode 7, they have remembered and it works better. But this and the good finale do not save Season 1.    … Expand
  5. Smashie
    Aug 3, 2019
    5
    The writing could use some work but I like it. I love Katee Sackoff. The visuals were good and I really like William!
  6. Carewolf
    Aug 26, 2019
    5
    Some of the dumbest writing I have ever seen on a sci-fi show. Though it does get better after the two first episodes, it only manages to pull itself up from a 2/10 to a 5/10.
  7. Alin123
    Nov 2, 2021
    6
    Decent, not good, not bad. Some people might say that the crew makes some decisions which are bad and not believable but considering people were eating tide pods at some point, we are able to make any bad decision.

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Metascore
33

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 8
  3. Negative: 4 out of 8
  1. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    Reviewed by: Matt Zoller Seitz
    Jul 26, 2019
    30
    This is an earnest but hard-edged drama about extraterrestrial first contact and deep space exploration that Frankensteins together bits of classics and near-classics. But the the whole never congeals into an original statement. And the storytelling is so ungraceful that I got whiplash from the first four episodes.
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  2. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Alex McLevy
    Jul 25, 2019
    50
    Nitpicking sci-fi conceits is usually a waste of time (who cares how implausible a lovestruck robot fixing a ship’s FTL drive is?), but there are enough glaring omissions of logic in Another Life that it’s impossible not to get pulled out of the story at times. ... What the series does have is Sackhoff, and she’s more than up to the task of reminding the viewer why she’s anchoring this series. Whenever she’s onscreen, the show’s sophomoric writing instantly becomes more plausible
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  3. RogerEbert.com
    Reviewed by: Brian Tallerico
    Jul 25, 2019
    10
    “Another Life” has a complete lack of character development within Niko’s crew because they're too busy worrying and yelling. ... Blair and Sackhoff are always welcome presences on any show, and it’s telling how much the four episodes of “Another Life” that I could stomach simply annoyed me.
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