Nightflyers

Based on the novella and short stories by George RR Martin, this sci-fi horror series was produced by SyFy and aired on Netflix.

It's a visual appealing series with some weird plots and twists, good ideas... but falls down in the end resulting in it being cancelled for a second season, so ending in a cliffhanger.

With Earth being ravaged by pollution and sickness, a team is assembled aboard the special ship Nightflyer to contact an alien race known as the Volcryn and save humanity.

But soon they learn the ship is sort of possessed, as an entity aboard the ship seems to work against them.  This is revealed to be the conscious of the previous captain and creator of the Nightflyer, Cynthia Eris and mother of the strange and reclusive current captain Roy Eris.  Think this series of being aboard the Event Horizon, but with the corridors from Alien, being run by Hal2000 during meno-pauze.

As the crew manage to lock the entity away in the computer matrix crystal, they travel ever closer to the Volcrys, but this starts to bring with it all sorts of strange phenomena and the deaths of several crew members (both main and side characters mind you).  In a desperate attempt to overtake the ship's control again, Cynthia possesses Lommy's, the computer expert on board, body in order to have the Nightflyer self-destruct and prevent contact with the alien species...

Not to bad a series, but it isn`t the kind of sci-fi you might be looking around for for some easy RnR.  It is complicated at times to keep track of the whole motivations of the various crew members, and due to the open ending, some answers remain out of our reach.

I liked it, even though it wasn`t "up there" with the greatest of series on television though, so let's say a good average series in the end.