This is the absolute best pilot I have seen in a long while! Very sad thats all there is of this show. Personally, I think this series could be a great one, and I sure it would have more than enough followers to make it work. I like how we know just what the characters know, so we can follow the story along with this group of eight people. It kind of seems a bit similar to Revolution, with all the electricity being gone, but this one seem to have more than just the power going out. Is it an invasion? Is the government behind this? Is our planet just giving up? I have no idea, but I would really like to know!! I really hope they reconsider and make the show.

Formula approach - kind of 70's in overall presentation, but...Acting WILL get better as they settle in. Character development is incomplete.The plot is wide open for future episodes.Special effects are better than average TV fare in places, while in others they were completely 'shot around' using reaction shots.Formats seemed to switch from film to video and back in places.It promises to be interesting and hints that it will grow in presentation.I would watch at least another episode.

Ever since Lost mindless and usually pointless riddles have become an accepted tool in story telling. Well, it is not a good tool. Particularly if it is used to make up for the fact that your narrative is boring and little. Here the author and director Chris Carter throws in all the proved elements of conventional TV shows in the pot and stirred well. Much helps much wise. It doesn't. It is also very bothersome that nothing is very realistic. Five people trapped in a garage and they cannot open a flimsy gate. Come on!Doors don't open because of power outage. But real life they are battery powered because power outages in fact happen even without supernatural intervention. And on goes the list. It is simply sloppily researched. In 'Halt and Catch Fire' one can see how proper recherché goes. Every detail has been taken the time to get right there. And a story CAN be fantastic and plausible at the same time. So what about the cast. Aldis Hodge, is trying his best to make his character a believable, realistic person. Unfortunately his role - at least in the first episode - seems to be the indoctrinator of political correctness. So the black guy has to be the only one with common sense and reminds us how flawed the legal system is. Well, it is, but what has that got to do with anything in this context. Why bring it up?External reasons I guess. Statements of political correctness generally do not improve a story if you just add them for wholesomeness. If I was black, I'd find it offensive, but what do I know about being black in the US. At least he is in my opinion the most realistic character in the show. That however is not owed to his ethnicity but his acting.Alas there is only so much you can do with such a script. Everybody else is basically free of personality and reduced to stereotypes. The french mommy (Louise Monot I think) is the worst. And too skinny. Why does the director try to bore us to death with yet another parent just trying to get home to her family. This has been done, the t-shirts have been made and yes, they are completely out of fashion for 5 years now.So here is what I predict. The storytelling will be very foreseeable because it is so heavy on the stereotypes. But in this kind of show lives from surprising twists to keep even an audience of lowered expectations from dying from boredom. How do you do that? Easy. By defying the rules of logic and the laws of physics. So it is going to be an even wackier narrative and over time it is going to be harder to believe. A little like in the X-Files only quicker and with a lesser cast. One can tell by the choice of cliffhanger how it is going to be from hereon out. But let's see how the next episode goes. There is no way but up.

Alright admitted it took awhile to start but the last 30 seconds adds a nice surprise and leaves room for a lot of growth. Hope this wasn't end. I liked the characters although I am undecided on the older ladies character seems to frail for the moves that are going to need to happen to move the story along. I also am trying to like the French woman but it really needs some work in development, you will lose people if you don't develop the characters back story. People are leery of this type of twisting turning show after getting burned by shows like Lost and Heroes where the show starts one way and completely loses its path at the end. Well scripted and letting the audience participate in the adventure will go along way in supporting the show.