Don't bother watching if you're strict about the science or geo-politics. Approach Salvation as a 40% romantic drama with 30% sci-fi 30% political thriller, and expect 5/10 realism for all three genres, you will not go crazy and may even enjoy the fast ride. I was lucky. I saw Jennifer Finnigan's face in the pilot episode. My eyes rolled over, oh god, the producers hired that Most Affected Most Plastified Actress of the Year from Tyrant. As their female lead! RED ALERT!!! But I like the asteroid Elon Musk stuff. So I braced for a deep impact of bad casting. Turned out, the rest of the cast, young and old, were very impressive esp given the flawed writing!
Santiago Cabrera's Darius Tanz held the entire show together -- as a character and as an actor. Tanz, the sort-of Elon Musk, is the most consistent character throughout. Everyone else did their best to flesh out their overly self-indulging characters. Melia Kreiling is one interesting newcomer.
The show writing is a 4/10 but I give 3 points for the actors' amazing efforts and 1 extra point for art direction.
Technological knowledge is at best cartoony. Two guys to crack EM Drive, seriously. Social political realism is lower than DareDevil and sometimes approaching Iron Fist level. Their White House protocol correctness is faker than Designated Survivor. The writers/ producers act like one billion dollar is a big deal to any big formal entity or billionaire in an extinction level scenario. As usual lead characters can't keep it in their pants as the human race allegedly depend on them for survival. As usual the (blondest) women act the emotionally high-maintenance spoiled me-me-me princesses as Rome burns, and the raven-hair women are immoral amoral or totally dispensable. The scene-killing perma-frozen-cheek bambi damsel Jennifer Finnigan with the voice and emotional range of a 16yo brat, somehow managed to monopolize all lead male attention and security resources at the most stressful moments. Every time her inane bambi damsel face comes on screen I want to smash something. Still, Santiago Cabrera and every other actor saved my furniture.
There were enough positives. The plot actually surprises. The sets are well-designed and production quality is overall very good. Story pacing is fast too, no bored pregnant pauses or stupid flash backs. Don't take it seriously and it's good as a binge watch fest thing when there's nothing else to watch.
Santiago Cabrera's Darius Tanz held the entire show together -- as a character and as an actor. Tanz, the sort-of Elon Musk, is the most consistent character throughout. Everyone else did their best to flesh out their overly self-indulging characters. Melia Kreiling is one interesting newcomer.
The show writing is a 4/10 but I give 3 points for the actors' amazing efforts and 1 extra point for art direction.
Technological knowledge is at best cartoony. Two guys to crack EM Drive, seriously. Social political realism is lower than DareDevil and sometimes approaching Iron Fist level. Their White House protocol correctness is faker than Designated Survivor. The writers/ producers act like one billion dollar is a big deal to any big formal entity or billionaire in an extinction level scenario. As usual lead characters can't keep it in their pants as the human race allegedly depend on them for survival. As usual the (blondest) women act the emotionally high-maintenance spoiled me-me-me princesses as Rome burns, and the raven-hair women are immoral amoral or totally dispensable. The scene-killing perma-frozen-cheek bambi damsel Jennifer Finnigan with the voice and emotional range of a 16yo brat, somehow managed to monopolize all lead male attention and security resources at the most stressful moments. Every time her inane bambi damsel face comes on screen I want to smash something. Still, Santiago Cabrera and every other actor saved my furniture.
There were enough positives. The plot actually surprises. The sets are well-designed and production quality is overall very good. Story pacing is fast too, no bored pregnant pauses or stupid flash backs. Don't take it seriously and it's good as a binge watch fest thing when there's nothing else to watch.