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I lowered my rating for season 2, some really dumb writing, just as an example, lets remove the seats from a plane so they can put seeds in there that wont weigh as much as passengers and lets loosely tie up a crazy women in the cockpit of a plane that us their only form of escape / transport. As soon as I saw that I was just waiting for her to escape and I wasn't disappointed. Season 2 is still watchable, but only just.

Binged the whole season in a day! I'm always up for sci-fi and I've just about exhausted every one on Netflix. This was the first good one in a loooong time. The dubbing and subtitles don't match (as with every other film) which made it really annoying but you get used to it. The show is just very hectic with a lot going on - everyone is out to kill each other in every episode. Shocking ending but looking forward to the next season! 10 stars because I really want to know what happens next.

I really enjoyed the first season, characters were interesting as well as the somewhat fresh plot, but the driving force was definitely how the characters were slowly built and unraveled.

Season 2 on the otherhand felt rushed, unstructured and badly written. They still reveal some character backgrounds in the beginning of the episode, but it's quite irrelevant really. Totally missed opportunity. S2 script is really farfetched at times and there is a very annoying open ending for possible S3.

Imdb needs a season based review/rating system.

Season 1 = 9/10 Season 2 = 4/10.

Must the premise be scientifically credible to make a good film? No Do the ideas in the story have to be consistent across the series? Yes Should the scriptwriters do a basic google search before they write a ridiculous line into the dialogue? Yes

So here's some things for the scriptwriters to think about: *Why does the educated guy tell the pilots that the sun is affecting the DNA of the food? DNA damage implies mutation, something that affects LIVING plants and animals. Is this guy trying to confuse the pilots? What the heck. *Similarly it doesn't follow at all that (alleged) gamma rays which kill living creatures would somehow destroy the non-living petrol. If the jet petrol has been so degraded that it will no longer combust, then you would expect all kinds of stuff to be disintegrating - ie plastics, etc. And why would the truck petrol be ok? * Why does Slyvie speak in French about throwing the soldiers off the flight when she doesn't know how much French the soldier speaks? She also uses easy words like Afghanistan, and criminelle. What the hell? * We know the story is taking place between September and March because they tell us that there will be more daylight in Hawaii. So it's in the colder months. Are they really walking around in Canada in the night without noticing the cold? * Why would this educated guy be completely unconcerned about a report that an animal (a ferret?) has survived the death rays? It appears that all life, plant, animal, food and even petrol is dead or dying. Surely anything stil alive is a vital clue? * If the passengers have internet connections, why aren't they using their spare time to research their situation? Surely there's someone alive somewhere to post on the internet (Arctic bases where it's continually dark in winter?). Even if there's no-one whatsoever alive, why aren't the passengers desperately looking into gamma rays, trying to find any information that might help them live? Instead they sit around fighting with each other.

However the really bad news is that there's nowhere near enough time to fly around the world at the lattitude of Brussels, have many adventures and yet stay in the dark the entire time. I added up all the passenger flight times and it came to 41 hours of flying time. For perspective the longest night of the year is 16hours in Brussels, so once around the world plus one night would be 24hours + 16 = 40hours. They then fly east to Bulgaria and when they get there the NATO guy says they have been flying for a week? What the heck.

Despite the above points, I still found this really enjoyable. I think if they had spent a little time finessing the script then it could have been really great.

This show is very reminiscent of Lost. It's got the individual character stories per episode and many mysteries and backgrounds to unfold. It even ends with, you guessed it , a hatch and bunker.....and a hell of a question mark to reel you in and make you scream with frustration when the credits roll. It has English subtitles but it also has English voice over for each character. Half the time I was reading the subtitles and half the time I was just listening. There's always some factual given take with stories like this but I am hooked. I hope they don't wait another year or two to bring out the second season or the show get cancelled. I hope more English-speaking people will give the show a shot because it is fantastic.

First season was interesting, full of mystery and good characterizations of course there were lots of logical error but I was really enjoying to watch. Second season was not good for me, lots of stupid decisions, they always fight each other.. And still I don't understand why zara and her son have died..anyway 7 for only first season but I want to confess, 2nd season has finished in super tension, I am looking forward to 3rd as soon as possible.

People will watch the first couple of episodes and give it a bad rating. Like the one person who said why did he give the guy a decent burial. There was a reason for that if you had stuck around long enough to find out!

Yes there is some bad science and some really stupid characters but it kept me going until the end. I do not understand why they randomly throw in English and every now and then they would say something that didn't make it to the subtitles.