Umbilical

Is it just me or do you wish they would allow us to spend more time with some of these creepy medic robots?

This episode looks great (like usual) and it also reveals some really interesting/original lore. The only downside to this episode is that some parts of the plot feel as if the groups are walking in circles.

4 out of 5 stars.

While Mother and the kids are held up in the mountain. Hiding from the religious cult soldiers. Mother is trying her best to keep her fetus healthy for the baby. The episode was exciting. Delivering a provocative drama between human and machine. And what separates them both.

The series had some promise, but it is falling apart under a load of supernatural nonsense. And I don't mean religion, I mean utterly unscientific nonsense, like flying superweapon android that is also saintly "mother of god" or mother of satan of a sort, conceiving from pure spirit in order to save the world from evil people.

Sure, one may try and create android, but keep within realm of possible.

Medic android albeit creepy was heaps more relatable, exactly because it is believable. But he was killed quickly by the supernatural Mother-of-saviour android, who is most boring because she is utterly unreal.

Acting is a mixed bag, ranging from solid to stilted and amateurish. Actor playing Marcus is still stuck in being viking Ragnar and looks out of place.

It makes you puke while you are clapping for it .A good strategy for the first season

Aaron Guzikowski returns to solo writing credit here but it is too late to turn around this show.

The best performance is by "buckethead" Otho but did Brendan Murray actually speak his lines and why was Adrian Schiller's voice used instead?

If I wasn't a stickler for seeing things through then I would have given up ages ago.

I came here to see Niamh Algar whom I had been besotted with. Her earlier work was impressive but like Censor and Wrath Of Man, this is poor. I just hope this show doesn't kill her international career.

As suspected, everyone will turn into a do gooder except Marcus and maybe Father will improve his dad jokes.

Will Sue be saved? No doubt modern TV will decide that a woman can never be evil and she was led astray.

There is light at the end of this now.

Just one more episode to endure.