There are so FEW TV shows for 10-year-olds that my grandson keeps watching the same half dozen over and over. We watched Skyward together and thoroughly enjoyed it. It was suspenseful and very and he could see himself doing what those kids were doing. I pre watched it then we watched together. Very entertaining, looking forward to a full series and soon.

This is unpalatable for adults and kids alike. Production quality, editing, cinematography, acting... it's just all bad. What's worse is a black actor being referred to as a "sidekick". That's utterly heartbreaking in this day and age. Make it stop. No one vetted this, and it needs to end up in the waste bin of history.

"Skyward" is an American English-language short film that premiered recently and here we have one of the newest wave of pilot episodes from Amazon that may or may not be turned into a series. The director here is pretty prolific and so are the writers, even if one of them in acting. The cast does not really include any big names, but that really isn't a surprise as this one here is much more about the stories than about individual performances. We have a bunch of kids here who basically acting like mini Ghostbusters with the exception that they are chasing aliens. Add an ounce of Goonies and Scooby Doo and you have a good idea of what this is about. Sadly all the ingredients you take here never result in a successful meal as I did not find it an inspiring or interesting watch. And when they actually do find an alien, things hit rock-bottom. Anyway, there are other core issues, namely the kids being uninteresting for the most part, sometimes even annoying and with many of their dialogues I must say that this is stuff that felt unauthentic and certainly not coming out of a child's mouth, even if you obviously cannot blame the young actors for that. If the quality stays steady on the level we got here in case the show gets picked up, I cannot see any longevity and I don't think I would wanna watch it. This first episode gets a thumbs-down from me. Way to go for everybody involved.

My family had to turn this off. It was truly painful to watch. They tried to steal from stories like ET and The X-Files, and they simply weren't successful. The kids are obviously child over-actors, and not good ones at that. The girl who plays Piper is stiff, and the character of Ira and the actor that plays him are beyond obnoxious. If this is what a "kids' show" looks like, my kids would rather never turn the TV on again.