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Apple TV continues to be the home of interesting new sci-fi drama now adding this mysterious little gem to it's portfilio that already includes Invasion, Foundation and Silo (all of which have been green lighted for future seasons). At the moment no announcement on this one although the writer Peter Harness seems quite hopeful. 

Starring Swedish actor Noomi Rapace , she is a dab hand at this sort of thing and is ably supported by young English acting twins Rosie and Davina Coleman playing her daughter (yes both play the same character!). Rapace plays an astronaut who seems to have experienced an hallucination during her mission in space that she is convinced is real. No one believes her of course but the 'truth' eventually turns out to be considerably stranger that anyone could have imagined. There isn't a lot of action, this is mainly about the relationship with her daughter and further odd goings on that make little sense until she discovers a couple of crackpots who seem to point her in the right direction. All very enjoyable and with a very mischevious ending that reminded me a tad of Tim Burton's Planet Of The Apes. How can this be real? 8/10

I had to wait a few years to watch the final 2 seasons as I didn't want to pay the £50 at the time. Now available under my Prime membership I've been binging this in the last few months. It takes a while to get back into it but you get 13 episodes in S6 and 16 in S7 so eventually the well drawn disparate group of young characters takes hold again. It's as cheesy as hell at times but generally it remains one of the best and most popular sci-fi TV franchises (outside of the Star Wars and Star Trek spin offs) of the last 20 years. 8/10

I didn't know about the Chinese version from last year, so thanks for that as I'll probably watch that too (30 1 hour episodes though opposed to the Netflix 8 episodes - wow). I'll reads the books too - if I really like a TV show based on a book I'll always go and dig out the book to read - my wife doesn't understand that at all as she thinks it's daft to read something you know what's going to happen. Me, I just like the detail a book gives that a TV show/movie can rarely provide.

Minx (Dromedy)

(2022-2023)

Cancelled after season one this story of one of the first feminist erotic women's magazines found a new home on another service for a second season. But alas, it would not see a season three. Enjoyable, if not a somewhat familiar tale (think Halt and Catch Fire) is not for the prude. So many wiggly dinklers flopping about it would make The Full Monty blush. Good characters that deserved a little more development time. I'm sure 5 seasons would have been perfect to tell a complete story.