Lost in Space

After Dark my choice was to watch Lost in Space, which turned out to be such a good choice because every single episode felt like a movie. Every episode was epic and bombastic and had us on the edge of our seats. 

I didn't expect to feel attachment towards a robot, but here we are. 

So the story follows a family who've all been accepted to go to the human colony on Alpha Centauri. But from the start it becomes obvious that something doesn't add up. The mom is a brilliant engineering and helped design and build the spaceship that would take humanity to a new planet. She built the ship, but not the engine and as far as she knew, humanity hadn't yet created an engine capable of long-distance space-flight. That mystery is solved in season two, but the solution is hinted to already in season one. 

Every episode has the family facing threats that could potentially kill them, most of them are natural in nature, but since they're always at alien planets or deep in space, the natural conditions aren't really what we're used to. 

Of course there are human things happening, like love and betrayal and friendship and treason (even a good old-fashioned mutiny), but most of this show is about surviving in an unknown and sometimes hostile environment. 

The Robinsons are all pretty badass and brilliant in their own respective ways. Poor dad keeps getting banged up.