I have just completed watching the first series of 'Lost in Space" 2018, watched all 10 episodes over a few days. This is meant to be a modernised version of an old story and I don't understand why it is being panned so much, it would have been utterly stupid to re-image the 1960's popcorn series as it was because it just does not fit today, the values, the political correctness ,the bigotry that existed in 1967 in the original series does not exist today and it is reflected in the writing and casting right down to the pack of Oreo's in the new Jupiter 2. The cast make the best of the scripts and the villain Dr. Smith is a twist on the original in that she is played excellently by Parker Posey as the narcissistic, manipulative women that will do anything to get what she wants and save her own hide which proves the saying "women are the masters of sweet talk and lies", you love to hate her but at the same time you feel sorry for her in that she has copped a raw deal in life and is only doing what she thinks to survive. She is actually like someone I know. Yes there is non stop disaster after disaster and the scientific know it all characters screw it up with bad decision making but even in real life, professionals screw up and don't get it right all the time...you only have to look to our politicians to see that. The show keeps moving and is not bogged down by drab scientific dialog, it's meant to be entertaining and escapist fun and many reviewers are taking it too seriously. It is 'science fiction", some suspension of the disbelief is required to enjoy it, I mean were 'The James Bond movies" panned this way where the hero James Bond gets such a bashing and pummeling from the villains that would put anyone in intensive care for months, yet be able to get up and strike his villains down like nothing happened and win the day...come on people, this is escapist fun like James Bond, treat it that way and turn your 'belief switch" off. It is early days and the cast and writers are getting it together, don't go looking for a 1960's version of Lost in Space. I remember in 1987 when I first watched the new version of "Star Trek - The Next Generation", I at first panned it because I was expecting a 1960's reboot of Star Trek and I thought the Next Gen, had more corn in it than Corn Flakes but as the show developed from it's early days it morphed into one of the greatest science fiction series ever made, over shadowing the original because it was modern and different for the time and I grew to love it and still do. Lost in Space 2018 is a similar case, it is developing and has the potential to become a hip and modern series, give it a chance and stop being wet blankets people, because the time is now, it's modern and fit's with the times..we are not in 1967 anymore.