User Reviews

A solid ending to a good season, plenty of action, the main thread closed out and sufficiently open to hook into season two. The whole Kwan plotline has been a distraction and goes nowhere, it would have been much better removed from the final cut.

Taken as a standalone sci fi series, this has been exciting, entertaining and enjoyable throughout. A season two would be most welcome.

Don't get me wrong, I've enjoyed John's backstory, but the Master Chief is here now and ready to kick some Covenant ass.

I felt like this episode hit all the right targets. It looked fantastic and the first person views brought on the nostalgia.

Best episode of the season, by far.

This is exactly what we want, episodes like this, we want more !!!!! I think i can forgive you for that one bad episode, can not wait for Season 2 now !! And the ending, just wow.

Was is it good? Yes.

Can it be better? Also yes (especially the cgi) Do I want to watch more? Also yes.

Are there any other sci-fi shows on this level? No.

Does it need more people and budget? Yes.

It's very well made and congrats to the whole team. Especially the differentiation between John and AI Master Chief was a genius idea.

Completely unrelated; from what I can see: if they wanted to make a good mass effect tv show, they would need a lord of the rings level budget; that would be amazing.

All storylines merged into one. And although there were a couple of moments where the plot moves seemed a little illogical, basically - this is a gorgeous ending.

Full of drama, great Pablo Schreiber and more. Pleased that we got a lot of Silver tea interactions. This was spectacular. Can't wait to continue!

Season wasn't bad. I would give him 8 out of 10 for such a final. But the screenwriter seemed to be writing a non-dramatic sci-fi action movie. But just drama. Viscous, slow. Halo needs more action and a little more budget.

You can see it in the finale. He is very good and emotionally seemed great. Good drama, good final fight. But they need to take it to the next level. Final 10/10 because I'm a fan.

The final episode of the series was one of the best episodes of this season, and I think it gave hope for a great future for the series. The final battle was very epic and breathtaking. I hope that in the second season, the producers of the series will have better development for characters like Kwan.

It took them 8 episodes to finally look at the game and figure out why so many LOVE the Halo universe. But they nailed it in episode 9. Man, this season is the most love/hate I've ever had for a tv show. It should have been 6 high quality episodes and not stretched to 9 and include so much boring time with Kwan Ha, that literally moved the story along 0. Overall, I did enjoy myself. It's not exactly what I expected, but maybe that's a good thing after all. I'm just giddy that we even got a Halo tv show at all, and look forward to improvements for Season 2!

I really enjoyed the first season. I havent played the games so i cant say if the show stays true to the games,but its a very good series and it doesnt deserve the hate it gets. U should just watch the show and ignore the negative opinions.

A few weeks ago, I wrote a review of Netflix's "Resident Evil" show saying that it fails on two fronts, both as an adaptation of the source material and just as a show in its own right. "Halo" is a much better show than that one, but again I'm not convinced its deviations from the source material, particularly straight out of the gate, are to its benefit.

A battle between Earth forces and an Alien Covenant on the planet Madrigal unearths a mystery object. This artefact is linked to a second larger one, which together will reveal the position the Halo, a mythical structure and potential weapon that both the Humans and the Covenant want in their possession. Leading the battle for the UNSC forces is The Master Chief (Pablo Schreiber) a soldier separated from his family and trained since childhood to lead the SPARTAN team, his contact with the first artifact though, reveals suppressed memories about his early life.

I should say that my experience with "Halo" is only playing through the first two games, I haven't yet got around to playing any of the subsequent titles in the series. I say this, because there are definite elements of this story that deviate from the plots of those games. There's no Arbiter character, for example, though some of that plot line might end up being done via Makee, a human character who lives with the Covenant and has a religious role, based on her connection to the Artefact. There's not connection to the Flood yet. The Master Chief takes off his mask, which I understand as a performance choice, but felt to me, like lacking in faith in the character. There's also a large secondary story that I didn't detail in the plot synopsis above, involving Kwan Ha, played by Yerin Ha, a Madrigal native who sees the Earth Forces take the artefact, but who the Master Chief connects with a former Spartan, and who returns to Madrigal to try and instigate a rebellion against the forces that rose up in the aftermath. This was, for me, not an aspect of the story I cared about and took time away from the Spartans, the UNSC and the Covenant storylines, that I was more interested in.

Away from thinking of it as an adaptation, I think, If I knew nothing at all about "Halo" going in, I'd come away having thought that the series was decent enough, though perhaps nothing special. The visual effects are good, the story isn't particularly original, but it makes sense and there are tensions being built.

I'll watch the second season, when that comes out - but I don't love this like I hoped I might.

The season is bit lackluster but still worth watching. I hope they will do better in season 2 and introduce a dynamic character that Halo fans can appreciate. We also hope that they will use some of the original soundtrack in first Halo that is very engaging and puts everyone on the edge of their seat. Overall this was such a fun first season.

A lot of people complaining abt how this not game accurate . You have to understand that a game accurate Halo will be boring.

GAME: Master chief never takes his helmet off SHOW: Yes, because in the game he's always on the battlefield .As I said , a TV show with just the repetitive action shooting will be boring . You will see other parts of chief's life and he can't be roaming around in an armor all the time.

GAME: Chief is shown to be invincible SHOW: A dramatic TV show will have to have the protagonist struggle and experience pain and that's part of character development. Invincible in a show will become boring.

GAME: Show doesn't match story elements of the game . Kwan of Madrigal is irrelevant SHOW: Yes , that's understandable. But the games do not contain any other aspects of Master chief's life except for the Battlefield part so you will see some new stuff which ,yes could have been done better maybe. And maybe I'm being overly optimistic but I really hope Kwan side story reasonably converges with the main one.

LASTLY ,the only problem I have is that this doesn't have the original Halo music .No matter how many seasons there will be but this will remain incomplete without the original MUSIC.

No spoilers. This ending was really filled with action and dramatic moments.

Of course, in places, graphically, it looked more like a game than a movie. But otherwise, it was clear that they were saving a lot of money for the final.

A lot of things happen, mostly interesting. And the ending is generally sad. It's hard to say how fans will take this twist, but it'll be interesting to see what's in store for Season 2.

It was perfect. What an amazing finale. Good work to the cast and crew. Can't wait for season 2.

PS. To those who just cant say anything good about the show since the first episode to the last i'd just like to say: Im so sorry. It must be hard for you to sit thru 9 episodes of a show you just dont like Lol.

Halo games series is full of easter eggs and they started taking that into this series as well. In the ending of the S01E09 as Dr. Halsey is writing and narrating something, she is wearing a long jacket and a word is written on the back. The word in Arabic means "Reconciliation" and "Peace" in Persian.

It was a very cleaver way to embed a message like that in the ending of an episod where the Master Chief becomes Master Chief truely. Hoping with the recent events, we won't see more of Chief without his helmet.

Great action, sub-par CGI and writing can be a bit weird at times.

Always good to see Master Chief doing Master Chief things. It's a little coincidental how when Halo is being Halo, it's a higher rated episode, right? He actually wears his armour for more than 2 minutes in this episode! Wow!

Trying to avoid spoilers, but at the end Master Chief acts more like Master Chief than he has ever been in the show. Stop with the mopey arse who keeps taking his helmet off to show how mopey he is, and make him the solid dependable dude he is that doesn't break rules because he feels like it but for the sake of humanity.

Where. Was. This. Chief. Earlier.

Besides the *snooze Kwan Ha side story this show is everything I could have ever asked for in a Halo Live Action Series

AMAZING action, thought-provoking and emotionally resonant story telling, and plenty of narrative juice to keep us plowing full-steam ahead for season 2!

Please paramount keep this train ROLLINGGG!!!

What to say, the writers are amongst the worst I've seen with several characters going against what they said last episode, acting like a small child or extremely dumb. Battle was nice though at the end but the stuff before made 0 sense and was just forced in by first time writers.

This season finale was what we wanted all season along. An excellent TV-adaptation of the game series. They cut off the dead meat, finally, and really hit the nail on the head with this final episode of the season.

Really excited for what season 2 brings and I'm really hopeful they can keep up the momentum from this episode. Just still don't get what they were thinking with the prior episodes, had they all been like this one this could have been an excellent series overall, but having to chog through 8 terrible episodes to get to this one is not a good impression, even for hardcore Halo fans.