Am watching season 2 currently steaming in Australia on Netflix, having fond memories of the original as a kid. Watching in morbid curiosity, that is, for the lame PC values inherent in this production trump any sci fi or TV serial tropes. It's such an incohesive mixture of things, it drowns itself in its own white noise. The kids are barely bearable, poor Toby is totally miscast as a henpecked husband, even though it's the guy who plays Don who's got the hen, I could happily murder Maureen if she were any relation to me, her annoyance factor is off the scale, and Parker Posey with her Herman Munster forehead and droopy mouth a criminally insane Dr Smith, albeit a stolen identity? Nah, guys, just nah! The horse, the chicken and the robot are great touches, hence my 3 star rating! There are various visual homages in the way certain scenes are set up to Spielberg, Kubrick, Emmerich etc. Good stuff here. But the whole thing is confused writing, silly action taking (the Jupiter 2 with an added mast literally sailing on an ocean? Yeah, right!) and shallow character and story development. Pity such gorgeous special effects - that gigantic constructed water canyon in the middle of the ocean is superb - are not matched by the overall quality of the drama. Will keep on to see just how bad it can get. Wonder if it'll prove itself to be so clever as to amount to a parody of the original. Sometimes the "it's so bad it's great" attribute applies.