Amibance, story and idea is great but what an horrible script full of non-sense....

I really really wanted to enjoy this show, from the trailers and previews it seemed like it was everything that I liked in a show. I enjoy science fiction, post apocalyptic type programs so I settled in to watch it. The first time (yes I tried to get into this awful show more than once) I didn't even make it to the second episode, the lead actress was hard to watch and the supporting actors (if you can even call them that) were even worse. Not only was her acting subpar, it was grueling to see some of her facial features. I think I tried to watch it four or five different times but I just couldn't. Don't waste your time, go watch the first season of Helix, The Last Ship, and 12 Monkeys.

This is a series of mostly pointless actions of the protagonists, striving for a goal but not really focusing on it. While they try to get there, they stupidly and constantly get themselves into trouble without reason and then have to fix it. Mostly they manage, often enough they don't. Seriously, when something goes wrong it is usually not the bad guys being smart, but the good guys being incredibly stupid. It's their own fault. It just hurts. Encounters with the antagonists are often sadistic scenes. The characters are rather one dimensional and super shallow, both antagonists and protagonists. Relationships between the characters are pretty stereotypical. The only interesting aspect of the show is finding out what happened, but it is coming in very slow bites.

I do wish TV creators would stop the "write the episodes as we go" thing and decide where the plot is actually going before a single frame is shot, because this thing is a mess.It gets off to a good start -- the premise is intriguing, the setup is tantalising, and the questions it raises are interesting -- but by the second episode it's all started to unravel and quickly descends into a directionless mess. It even seems to forget it's a sci-fi show for quite some time, and when it finally remembers it soon becomes apparent that nobody had clearly thought through the whys and wherefores of its central thesis, and this results in so much handwaving and ill-conceived nonsense that any remaining shreds of believability are lost.In its favour the production values are pretty good and by and large the acting is competent, but in the final reckoning that can't save it from its deeper failings. Like "Under the Dome" this is a high-concept show that ruins an interesting idea with increasingly unbelievable and unfocused writing, resulting in an unsatisfying and frustrating lurch from one half-baked idea to another.