jackpdn Absolutely loved this pilot. Please pick this up. Best new show I have watched in a while. Richard Madden was a well found gem in the entertainment industry. From Game of Thrones to Medici. I will follow his work. This has an awesome story line that is easy to get involved in. I want more. I want to know what happens next.

Bookisbetter The casting, the dialogue, the foundational details--it's all wrong. I was excited to watch this, as I love sci fi books and movies, even the Could-Never-Happen-Like-Ever sub genre. The author, writers and director on Oasis, though, take implausible to ever greater heights.Can we please start with Haley Joel Osment's character? He is fat, anxious, has a learning disability and, also, astigmatism. Early on in the pilot, It is mentioned that it costs $100 million to send each person to Oasis. I am not currently on any NASA committees, but I think I am qualified enough to say that the child actor who grew up to be Zach Galifinakis's less attractive, nervous little brother should be off the list. You, sir, are no Matt Damon.If that's not enough (and it is), the timeline is a major plot hole for me. It takes place in dirty near-future (2032), yet we have in 15 short years from now created spacecraft and technology suitable for intergalactic travel such that we have a colony on the new planet (with Jeeps) as well as a dialogue with the aboriginals and some early adopters of Christianity.Which brings me to: in 15 years we're interested in converting our first alien allies to Christianity? It's confusing. Are we trying to help them? Hurt them? Is it so humans appear more credible or less credible? Oh, here's the major spoiler for the rest of the season: the pilot is based on a sci fi novel called The Book of Strange New Things. Why is it called that, you may ask? Because the aliens can now speak English and they can also read the Bible which they call the Book of Strange New Things. (Facepalm. If the one book we're giving them is the Bible, I think the message is better conveyed in the original Greek? I don't know. It's not really my thing.)I do want to interject here that the effects were pretty awesome for a streaming TV pilot.Anil Kapoor is an opportunist. He was poorly cast. This fella had never seen a sci fi movie prior to filming this pilot, though, in his promotional interviews for this show, he confirms that he has since seen 2001 and Star Wars, so now he understands the genre. I mean, yes, a person's first two sci fi movies should be 2001 and Star Wars, but those two movies are not eponymous enough to be a genre study. (Okay, they are, but this man is an interloper in the sci fi world.)Also, bad dialogue and the acting is a mixed bag. I do not need a full season of this.

theredandwhitekey A science fiction, existential, futuristic looking series (haven't read the book) set in a dystopic future(??). What more can I say? All the elements for true fans are there and are very well put together: acting, set design, art direction, directing and soundtrack!! One of those series that makes you think about existence, the human race and what's out there, far far away. When is the godd***** season for goodness sake coming??? c'mon... yalla...been waiting, and waiting, and checking, and waiting... If Amazon needs feedback, you definitely have it by now: Please green- light this series and do it fast!

Khun Kru Mark (Review based on the pilot episode only.)There is so much wrong with this rubbish that it's hard to know just where to begin. Within ten minutes you'll want to start punching these feeble minded idiots in the face! Well, I did.Once again TV has a bash at making sci-fi and once again it's a bloody mess. A good looking teenage boy finds God when he meets his wife... God then kills his wife so he becomes a priest. With me so far? So the front cover of Male Fashion Monthly skips to another planet to escape wandering around the soup kitchens of a post-apocalyptic London.When he gets there, people are having hallucinations and dying at an alarming rate. Well, for the viewer it's alarming - nobody on the planet seems to even notice! Eventually, they DO notice and the new vicar- detective starts an investigation.There are drones from Best Buy but they have a blue light so you know they are from the future! The water is scarce so it's rationed and baby wipes are the order of the day... although there's enough water to do the laundry because everyone has spanking bright clean uniforms on even after a bloody operation in the makeshift hospital.The planet itself is a desert with a factory on it manned by talented ex- cons... the new hire is a dyslexic botanist who, in one day, manages to devise a whole new system for conserving water... there's an even sprinkling of races and genders so this bilge water can be sold worldwide... forced drama for no reason... a man cries because his horse died... and on it goes.Every attempt at tension fails. Nobody smiles and everyone struts about barking out orders and being miserable... that's the only bit of this crap-fest that I can associate with. I, too, would be as miserable as sin if I had to spend an eternity with this horrible collection of morons.So what is this about? It's a vicar detective in space... that's all you need to know!