[The News Bot]

This show is wacky, misguided and chockfull of lame performances, yet there is an undeniably hysterical approach to its overly-ambitious formula. As a homage to the original 1953 movie, it actually works surprisingly well – though perhaps with more of a fan-film mentality than any true sense of narrative coherence, direction or purpose. The influences of many other horror/sci-fi offerings are worn proudly on its amateur-costume sleeve, and its tired old cliché-ridden clutch of regulars seem to believe that they are in something of great accomplishment. It’s certainly greater than the level of their collective accomplishment, anyway. I found the show amusing in an eye-rolling kind of way, but ultimately unexciting and lacking in any sort of atmosphere. But, the really frustrating thing is that there was quite clearly a kernel of inspiration in this pseudo-sequel set-up. Spirited cameos aside, however, the execution of the show is poor, the script juvenile and pretentious and the initial concepts left unfulfilled.

Tellingly, Season Two changed the format quite radically and killed off a couple of the main cast, introduced a new breed of alien, but was still a failure. Stick with the movies, folks. And Jeff Wayne’s version.
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