In 1965, sci-fi series were still innocent. Sets were low cost, special effects were often corny, stories were unbelievable bordering on silly and acting was rarely top notch. The few exceptions we know... Twilight Zone, Star Trek... where Rod Sterling and Gene Roddenberry made sure their story telling reflected the human condition in fascinating locations, times and conditions. Fortunately many attempts to spin tales of space adventures are largely forgotten, and this reboot of Lost in Space using the original series character names but none of the charm and relationship building should end up on the trash heap of sci-fi history.

There are few redeeming values to this mess.

There is so much wrong with this series. I will just summarize. It is so politically correct with casting choices it hurts believability big time. Evil women and vacant-headed youth abound. Character writing is woefully lacking. Targeted at young women looking for role models as we negotiate the Wonder Woman, metoo era totally at the expense of good and believable sci-fi story telling. Male characters are childish or subservient to female characters who exhibit traitorous flaws or unrealistic physical prowess and astounding technical ability. At times the background music is reminiscent of the movie Alien or Jurrasic Park and other clasdic sci-fi and horror borrowed for effect. There is little originality of any kind here. This series is insulting to sci-fi audiences in 2018.

We are now in a golden age of quality television. The selection of great series of all genres especially from Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, SyFy and others is astounding. The Expanse, Outlander, The Man in the High Castle to name only a few are exceptional examples of great writing, acting and story telling. There is little reason to spend our valuable free time on substandard productions like Lost in Space, sci-fi or not.