Bad casting, bad acting, bad writing. That pretty much sums it up. The writer of this one made a series of poor decisions when composing the screenplay and the show never recovered from them. Lost in Space is basically 'The Swiss Family Robinson', but in space. It's a story of persevering through adversity and survival. However, in this version, it's more of a family drama about why a family hates the father and how they learned to get over it. Could have taken place anywhere, didn't need to be in space.

Too much of the conflict in this show is internal rather than external, which makes for a terrible survival show and turns what could have been a great experience into a mediocre melodrama. Also, I don't mean to nit-pick, but space shows should be intelligent and scientific. Anyone with a passing knowledge of space or physics will quickly realize that the writer of this show doesn't understand very much about either one, unfortunately.

In the second season, the writers apparently tried to add more science into the first two episodes, but it was 7th Grade level Earth Science dealing with such concepts as 'what makes things float in water?' and 'How does lightning work?' Things that the Robinson family should already well know if they're supposed to be astronauts. The writing in this season, remarkably, takes a sharp nose dive from the first, something I didn't think was even possible, and the character's IQ levels drop lower than my expectations of the series.

If you're brave or masochistic enough to make it to the end, you will surely find yourself asking 'How in the hell did this get made in to a TV show?' I honestly can't believe that this got the green light from Netflix and no one along the way stopped to say 'Hey ... this doesn't make any sense at all.'