I gave it a try. But I had no desire to watch episode 2 after seeing the first. Maybe it gets better, but I doubt it. I give it an extra star for the beautiful landscapes and special effects.

Like everything Netflix makes, and everything Hollywood makes in general, Lost in Space is a box ticking exercise, and I don't just mean the predictable casting.

Every family is inexplicably multi-racial. Check. (it's always a mixed race black woman for some reason, they are flavour of the month currently).

Women are always extremely intelligent, brave, capable and strong characters whereas male characters are cowards and make mistakes. Check.

Flashy CGI. Check.

Hollow attempts to create tension which fail. Check. A lot of them are just exhibitions of how strong and intelligent women are and don't feel like anyone is really in danger. The lack of set up to make you care about the characters doesn't help.

Here's an example of how bad the characters and writing and acting are: I didn't even realise the family on earth was the same as the one in space until about half way through.

Really I suppose the biggest failures of Netflix's Lost in Space are the script, acting and direction. I don't care about the wokeness if it was actually good. But these characters have no rapport; they do not seem like a real family. I am not gripped or intrigued. I forced myself to finish the first episode.

What reason is there to continue watching a slow-paced show with fake tension and empty relationships? I literally do not care what happens to them so stopped after the first episode.

I will add a caveat that it's possible the show gets better, but I will never know since the pilot was so bad.