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Nov 30, 2018
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Nov 29, 2018
Season 1 Review:
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.
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TV Guide MagazineNov 26, 2018
Season 1 Review:
A grisly hybrid of science fiction and horror, capable of claustrophobic chills but more often merely evoking chaotic confusion. [26 Nov - 9 Dec 2018, p.9]
Nov 27, 2018
Season 1 Review:
There’s nothing epic about Nightflyers. It’s basically a haunted spaceship story--filled with what has to be a record number of uses of the F-word on basic cable--that does a poor job in its first hour giving viewers reasons to care about the characters before putting them in jeopardy.
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Dec 3, 2018
Season 1 Review:
Unfortunately, the show never alchemizes these touchstones into a fresh, distinctive aesthetic. And when projects like this aren’t capable of knocking you out with style, they’d better have vivid characters and a riveting story to fall back on, and that’s not the case here, either.
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RogerEbert.comNov 27, 2018
Season 1 Review:
The production is riddled with problems. Most of the roles are miscast, the dialogue is flat, and the pacing usually feels off. It’s one of those shows that sags right when you want it to click into place. And several of the performances are downright bad--only Sampson and Jodie Turner-Smith spark any viewer interest.
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Nov 30, 2018
Season 1 Review:
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.
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