Lost in Space Season 1

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Leave it to Netflix to turn a lighthearted 54-year-old kiddie show into an oppressively-feminist melodrama. Men are bumbling, insensitive oafs who earn little or no respect in this series; that’s particularly true of the father, John Robinson, who is played as a second-class nobody under the thumb of his smug and domineering wife, Maureen Robinson.

Don West (the versatile pilot, scientist, and engineer of the original series) has been reduced to nothing more than a self-aggrandizing, materialistic smuggler…a foolish role that accessorizes West with a pet chicken. The Robinson children (Judy, Penny and Will) are now insufferable wiz-kids who regularly disregard their parents’ judgment and disobey their parents with abandon. Dr. Smith is NOT REALLY Dr. Smith but is a humorless female sociopath (bordering on psychopath) whose deceptions and dark schemes threaten the survival of everyone.

The Robot (main attraction of the original 1960s TV series, trading barbed witticisms with Dr. Smith) has devolved into a mute and fairly hideous transforming alien monstrosity that nobody trusts.

But, overall, this is a woman-driven series full of snarky, pretentious, eye-rolling, “empowered” females… In that sense, it’s even more of a fantasy than the original 1960s series.

Not bad special effects; however, the story is saturated with bland space-fantasy tropes (fuel-eating space monsters, technological malfunctions, race-against-the-clock rescues, imminent planetary destruction, etc). Virtually every principal character is rewritten for the worse, the mood is over-serious, and the cast now includes DOZENS of castaways (mostly alpha-females and vacillating beta-males).

It doesn’t help that the continuity errors and plotholes are numerous, and the “science” is regrettably uninformed.

For example, by sheer accident, the castaways find themselves on an amazingly Earth-like world with familiar temperatures and gravity and breathable air at atmospheric pressures that allow them to immediately discard their life-support gear. That’s unlikely enough, as it is. But, then, we see them handling liquid methane that accidentally gushes out of its container onto the ground like water. Of course, at human-friendly temperatures and atmospheric pressures, the tenuous liquid state of methane would instantly sublimate to a gaseous state (with explosive results), thus eliminating a huge portion of the show’s extended refueling plot.

They eventually use refined bat guano to power their spacecraft, anyway, so that solves the liquid methane problem. Right?

Worst of all, this series completely omits the one thing that made the original 1960s series work: the amusing, almost slapstick interaction of the bombastic Dr. Smith with the unflappable Robot. Without that, it’s not Lost In Space.

In summation, this is just another generic, amateurish, politically-correct space fantasy with “Lost In Space” branding. In name only.

– Charles Austin Miller

As with a lot of modern reboots of old classic series, producers more or less just steal the title & character names, but pretty much trash everything else that made the original endure some 50 years later.
Beyond title and character name, there is nothing at all recognizable with it origins.
The production designer said he didn’t even look at the original when he went about creating the new show’s look.
It more resembles Space 1999 in design if anything
With that, you just have to look at it as a completely different show.
There has been plenty of money spent up there on the screen, but the end result is the show is rather forgettable.
We won’t be looking back on this in 50 years.

– Dave

I loved the first season of this show, and I’m waiting patiently for season 2, which should come at the end of the year. This show is basically a beautiful 10-part movie. The music and the effects, and the environment and the cinematography are amazing and artful and beautiful. The acting was top notch. The actor who play our hero Will Robinson is wonderfully played by Maxwell Jenkins. He is GOOD. I don’t mean like child actor good. I mean just good on the whole. He will keep getting acting jobs far into the future. The actors that play his parents are wonderful and their family issues are totally believable. His sister is fun and charming. The step sister is impossible to not like. As far as “Dr. Smith” they did well casting this actress. The writing did it’s job and then some. That is to say, they made you really hate her. She’s a great bad guy. All the supporting characters are fun too watch. The stories are fun and compelling.
Well done Netflix. Keep ’em coming!!

-Misterbanks

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Actors: Lost In Space Season 1
Format: NTSC
Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
Subtitles: English
Dubbed: French, Spanish
Region: Region 1
Number of discs: 4
Rated: NR – Not Rated
Studio: 20th Century Fox
DVD Release Date: June 4, 2019
Run Time: 552 minutes
ASIN: B07NTXF4XK