Good sci-fi is never about space battles or time travel. That kind of stuff is just something a good writer uses to mirror or illustrate something about our own society. To that end, Lost in Space DID make a noble effort to show a society in collapse due to the collapse of the family unit, and to give it credit, it didn't shy away from showing the darker side of feminism and its responsibility for this. Some commenters have claimed the mother (Molly Parker) is an appalling character: selfish, judgemental, know-it-all. She's all of that, certainly, and I think that was kind of the point. All the way through, pretty much until the last couple of episodes, she puts HER needs and HER wants ahead of the family as a unit. She wants to colonize space: the family goes into the programme. She wants to drag the kids along: they get drug. She decides she doesn't need her husband anymore: kids, we're all going to Alpha Centauri, oh, not your father...And yes, the show DOES try to depict men as not being entirely worthless creatures. The unhesitating willingness of the father, Toby Stephens, to go hand to hand with a bunch of giant alien eel creatures to save his daughter, for instance, is celebrated as a manly virtue. All in all, it should be an edgy and thought provoking series. But it isn't, for two basic reasons. One is the breakneck hurtling from one cliff-hanger to the next, often scenarios verging on the horror genre. The other is the fact that the characters are just so unsympathetic. You really don't care about them. I'm not sure why, but you don't, and that's death in a TV show.