Aaron Lopez The initial previews of the show really looked promising, however, after watching the first few episodes my opinion has lowered drastically. The show is full of poorly rendered special effects, bad acting and plastic actors. Story lines look like they may get better over time, but for now they are unremarkable and not compelling enough to hold my interest.The show seems to try to duplicate the Joss Whedon gem, Firefly, but falls short due to poor production value and bad writing.Not going to go into any spoilers or specific information, but suffice it to say that I will more than likely just wait until I can Netflix the series rather than sitting through the network showing, so at least I can spare myself the pain of the commercials.Hopefully, like Farscape, the series will improve over time. But for now it is looking like it is made by the same team who makes those "SyFy made-for-TV-movies".

udar55 This French series (shot in English) adapts stories from the "Metal Hurlant" magazine, which eventually became "Heavy Metal" in the U.S. Director Guillaume Lubrano helms six 25-minute episodes with the common thread being a metal/rock meteor (the Metal Hurlant) screaming past each of these alien worlds before each story. "King's Crown" has peasants on a floating rock of a planet engaging in a combat tournament to determine the new king. Two of the better combatants are Michael Jai White and Scott Adkins. "Shelter Me" has a girl (Michelle Ryan) waking up in a bomb shelter and being told by a man (James Marsters) that he saved her before a nuclear war. Soon she starts doubting his story. "Three on a Match" has three men (Craig Fairbrass, Dominique Pinon, and Eriq Ebouaney) battling for space on an escape pod. "Red Light / Cold Hard Facts" is an episode split in two and was apparently the pilot that Lubrano shot to get the series greenlit. "Red Light" focuses on a prisoner (David Belle of the BANLIEUE 13 series) fighting a guard (French MMA fighter Cyril Diabate) while trying to escape a high-tech prison; "Cold Hard Facts" has folks in the 24th century discovering a 20th century cryogenic patient that they resurrect. "Pledge of Anya" has a young warrior sent by his master (Rutger Hauer) to the planet Earth to destroy a "dragon." Finally, "Master of Destiny" focuses on a intergalactic hunter named Hondo (Joe Flanigan) who sets out on a quest to find a planet where the alien race can tell you when you are going to die. This one might gain the most interest from fans as it adapts a story co-written by Alejandro Jodorowsky back in the day.Being not all that familiar with the source material, I still found this to be a fun series and got through the two and a half hours quickly. Lubrano has definitely chosen some good stories to adapt. Sure, you'll see some twists coming a mile away, but others not so much. He also has a pretty great visual style and some of the space shots are great, esp. for a low budget series. Another thing I liked was his casting as he got some good familiar faces in there (although I doubt Hauer was ever on set with anything but a green screen) and I'll never complain about seeing White and Adkins face off. A second season has been greenlit so look for that.

Jean-Noël Gobron Very disappointing mini-series consisting of 6 short episodes, each with a duration of only 25 minutes. The poster looks nice but it's not leveled by the content of the movies. The proposed shorts are uneven in quality and certainly not worth the title named after the great French magazine "Metal Hurlant", from which unfortunately is nothing left but the title. The psychological introduction and positioning of the main characters are so superficial that it is hard to emphasize with them. The actors are not convincing and badly directed, everything is below the average, including the point of views of the camera, the editing, the special effects. My advice : don't spent your time or money on that season.

jnlafargue This TV show is a kind of punk version of the 50s classic "Twilight Zone". The stories told are out of short stories found into "Métal Hurlant", a very important comics and science fiction magazine published between 1975 and 1987 (and also in the US under the name of "Heavy Metal"), where it was possible to read people like Druillet, Moebius, Wrightson or Corben. Two animated movies have been done : Heavy Metal and Heavy Metal 2000. The "Metal Hurlant Chronicles" is made of short episodes : stories and actors are never the same ones. The cast is quite surprising, with American and french actors. There are only six episodes (making seven stories, as one episode is sliced in two different stories) and the result is quite fair, even if the special effects can seem a little cheesy, but it might be on purpose, as it is naive and funny science-fiction.