Cheap Netflix is one of those studios that forces you to sit though long trailers of their movie offerings. Anyway, can we say "uncreative ripoff"? I could list at least dozens of reasons why, but will only do a few. Series demographics is for the middle school to the barely graduated high school set. The following "usual" means storyline hooks been done countless times before - simple cheap formula to sell and make money for producers, et al. 1. Usual dysfunctional family; single parent raising a mix of kids. Lots of age inappropriate smoking; drinking; fake underage sex; language "don't be a pussy". 2. Usual local constable w/issues such as addictions (smoking, drinking, being independently 'ornery) to come to single mom's help. 3. Usual gang of middle schoolers bullied by bigger baddies (but payback is on the horizon of course). 4. Usual cute girl romances for the schoolers. Usual nerdy science teacher. Usual schoolers out to solve the missing peoples puzzle despite initial push back from dull clueless adults. Usual biking on dark roads w/woods of course. 5. Usual secret quarantine lab in small town w/baddie corporate research w/baddie secret government help. Lab is trying to create super humans (of course), and then there has to be an alien supernatural portal for our usual menace. Usual EEG device as cheap visual for altering/measuring brain. 6. Usual superpower tricks such as telekinesis (levitating, opening/closing things, pushing things about) w/usual bleeding nose. 7. Cheap special effects such as flashing on/off lights; falling snow/ash; bluish lighting; blobby & webby things on walls; critter hand/face coming through wall (which is just stretchy fabric); shadowy figures; flashing across screen figure; blurry images; same-old-same-old critter w/usual big flappy mouth (I'ld like to be his agent). 8. Lots & lots of screen time devoted to just scenes of talking heads (people just talking about nothing special or intelligent) - cheap filler. 9. Acting, dialogue all TV level quality. Left enough unresolved for another season.