The 1960s Lost in Space was a sort of accident. The plan had been a series focused on the sci-fi adventures of an attractive, all-American family turned castaways by the machinations of evil Dr. Smith, who was so terrible he needed to be killed off.

The actor behind Dr. Smith, Jonathan Harris, had other plans. He made the character more comical and found a way to turn the series into the story of Smith, Will, and the robot, with that attractive all-American family shunted into the background. The result was campy and often hilarious.

This reboot is really an attempt to do what the producers had originally meant to do; make a sci-fi series about a family. There are some changes - the robot is alien and mysterious and Smith is a woman with a stolen identity (it's hard to imagine Parker Posey turning her slick psychopath into comic relief).

I had doubts about another attempt to follow the original Lost in Space concept that had fallen so flat with that awful movie. Lost in Space is supposed to be campy and silly and absurd, and why not just try and do that again?

But at first I really liked the reboot. It's characters are well-defined and engaging. The early episodes spend more time on PTSD than most shows where awful things happen. The robot is cool. Posey is excellent, and her ability to keep things going her way are fairly convincing. Three episodes in I was curious to see where it was all going .

But around episode 6 I started feeling really bored. The series was so focused on character that it wasn't doing much with the story. Smith's machinations began to annoy me; she seemed to be creating chaos without much purpose.

By episode seven I was skipping forward just to see how the episode ended. I probably won't watch any more.

It's a shame, I really think this could have worked.