Intergalactic

The script and storyline are garbage on the whole, the dialogue poor and the acting, while not all bad, completely lacking in nuance.

It's not just that the characters are all one dimensional, but everyone spends every scene shouting and snarling at each other, everyone is angry at everyone else all the time and it's exhausting to sit through. If only there was a little subtlety to it, some introspection and some room for characters to just breath it would make the action scenes stand out and give the conflict more impact. Instead it's like sitting on the sofa while someone smacks you over the head with a metal tray while screaming in your face for 45 minutes.

You can easily sit through it and let it wash over you if you have absolutely nothing else to do, but if there's anything, literally anything else going on, do that instead.

I was able to watch this streaming via Xfinity's Peacock site. My wife and I watched the first episode, she left when one of the characters began to lick up blood on the floor. I watched the entire episode and wasn't very impressed. But I wanted to give it a fair trial so I also watched the entire second episode.

"Intergalactic" by its meaning involves travel to another galaxy. But to me that is just a trick to make the show seem more interesting than it is. The setting is 120+ years in the future, 2145 or so. Much of the world we know now was in ruins by then but nothing seems to be done to tear down the ruins. To travel to another galaxy either takes thousands of years, or you have to learn how to warp space and time. But the space ships in this future still have lots of wires and switches, not a very likely development. No explanation is given, we just have to trust they figured out a way to do it.

So what we see is very limited imagination of what the future will be like. But they sure have preserved the widespread use of handguns, the same kind we use today. And almost every scene has someone pointing a gun and threatening to kill one or more people. Plus all the characters are ugly and unlikable. A very dark dystopian future and viewers who like that might like this series.

But not for me, I will watch no more. The space travel is just a gimmick, the story is really about bad people and isn't substantially different from all the other TV series featuring bad people.

I've just watched the complete series, and enjoyed it a mild kind of way. It's low budget, the script isn't great, and the acting is ok in parts - I'm glad to say some of the cast members obviously have some fun with it, and that comes through on screen.

Watch a fews eps and see what you think - it would be good if the title got a second series, and a bit more investment in script and story development.

As one of the probably very few people who can remember watching William Hartnell as Dr Who, I can testify to the show's rough edges and iffy bits - so don't be too enthusiastic about slating a programme like this. It could turn around with a second series green light.

It was fun to watch. The story have some twists, romance, action, and lots of violence and blood!

The acting was not bad, the storyline could be better and the characters could have more depth and background story. But, I guess this gives the writers some materials for season two..

I must say that I would of agreed with the low score of Intergalactic if I had just watched episode one, I thought that I would stick with it and whilst it is no "Firefly" it did get better and better as it went along and I started to enjoy it more and more, I hope that they do make a second series.

So whilst this is not a classic, it is definitely very watchable(remember that this is a low budget production), I do recommend that you persevere with it.