I heard about this reboot coming to Netflix but was unaware itd be here so soon - a pleasant surprise when i logged in tonight and the words "LOST IN SPACE" were starring me in the face... so of course i hit play! Now, I wasnt around for 60's adaptation of the series but i do remember seeing the 90s film as a kid, and despite its cheesy writing was a gorgeously produced film with an all star cast I like to think gave the film some charm - which btw hasnt aged too badly and still watch from time to time. So if you havent watched the 90's film adaptation I recommend you do. As for the 2018 series, its most definitely a family casual sci-fi you can flip on after dinner and have little Timmy and uncle Bob join ya. Which I believe the Lost in Space franchise was always intended to be. So i dont quite get some of the nerd ragers complaining about the show not being some sort of hardcore trekkie techno babble nerd fest. While i do enjoy that stuff myself I knew what i was getting into with LIS. Now the acting is really spontaneous full of colorful actors with charisma, particularly the kid cast. As for the two parents, their writing is a complete snooze fest... your typical rocky marital status buffoonery that plagues tv nowadays. I really hope they remedy this because I cannot stand lazy uninspired writing in relation to the main cast. While I did enjoy some of the CGI, in particular the huge wall cloud of the approaching storm during the chariot scene some of the other affects are eye sores and clearly half assed, which makes me wonder what the budget for this series is. For example the alien robot looks like cheap plastic to me and so do the Jupiter ships during the evacuation scene, not to mention the 10 dollar space suits they were in in the first ep. I swear they looked almost identical to the ugly cheap copper colored ones used in Star Trek: Enterprise

So all in all, an entertaining new series with promising core of young actors and a touch of iffy writing here and there which doesnt derail the entire series for me (yet). Production isnt anything to talk about. Score is well produced I might add. Maybe the series improves in some of these areas but as of right now its a serviceable series i see myself sticking around for.

7/10