I can enjoy a good suspense thriller and I'm willing to suspend my disbelieve to an extent. But when a show makes a big deal out of being a science thriller and it's based on such mind-numbingly dumb primes is maddening. It's water, but it defies the law of conservation of mass because... it's on the moon? What?! Also, it's just two tiny hydrogen atoms bound to one oxygen atom, but it behaves like a virus, which is hundreds of thousands of atoms (simple, sure -- but not water simple).
But, sure, you're not here for the science. You're here for the thrills. This was eight episodes that should have been four. Other than the idiotic "it's water, but it's 'lunar water' so it's..." oh, never mind it's so ludicrous I can't even summarize. Other than that surprise, which is only a surprise because it is so, SO stupid, there are no surprises here. It seems like it could be a modern The Thing, but on the moon. Tense and exciting as they race against an unseen foe, trying to figure out what they're up against. If it were a tense and exciting thriller, the science illiteracy would be easier to accept. It is not a tense and exciting thriller. It's a slog that's at least twice the length it should be.
But, sure, you're not here for the science. You're here for the thrills. This was eight episodes that should have been four. Other than the idiotic "it's water, but it's 'lunar water' so it's..." oh, never mind it's so ludicrous I can't even summarize. Other than that surprise, which is only a surprise because it is so, SO stupid, there are no surprises here. It seems like it could be a modern The Thing, but on the moon. Tense and exciting as they race against an unseen foe, trying to figure out what they're up against. If it were a tense and exciting thriller, the science illiteracy would be easier to accept. It is not a tense and exciting thriller. It's a slog that's at least twice the length it should be.