I'll start off by saying the show has a cool concept and despite its glaring flaws it is entertaining. It's weird, suspenseful and the visual effects are really good. If you like sci-fi and horror give it a shot. But I have to rant about some seriously deep flaws about what happens in the show. Flaws that make you want to bang your head against a wall because things that happen in the show would NEVER happen if this mission actually took place in reality. Let me set the scene. The mission is for the crew of the Nightflyer to make first contact with an alien race in hopes they can share technology that could save a dying earth (because what would a futuristic sci-fi show be without the setting of humans destroying the earth...). My point is this is obviously the most important moment in human history if successful. So what do they do? First of all, they bring a homicidal telepath on the ship. What could go wrong there? There is no ground control because who needs that on such an important mission. The ship nearly crashes the moment they try to leave earth due to a malfunction but instead of postponing to see what went wrong while still in reach of earths full technical resources they just ignore it and blast away anyway. I mean why fix the flat tire in the driveway when you can fix it on the highway... which brings me to my next point, maintenance on the ship is horrible! There is literally leaking flammable liquid pouring out all over the place and no one seems to give a flip. In fact it's so ordinary they just stand in it, go about their business and never give it a second thought. That's like having the makers of the Yugo build the space shuttle. Makes total sense to me. The showers on board are actually giant tubes that's completely immerse the person in water while the person in it breaths through a mask. Did I mention Hudini built the showers? That's right, there is no emergency release mechanism because who needs that if something goes wrong. Then there's the crew. Apparently not one of them trained for the mission. In fact I bet all they had to do to join this mission was have a pulse and put the round peg through the round hole. Congrats! You get to go on the most important space endeavor in human history. The sharpest of rusty dull knives in the box. You're telling me these people are earths finest? The elite of the elite out of what I'm sure is 15 billion people by that point? Come on. Oh then the telepath escapes but none of the 10,000 cameras on the ship can find him or sees who let him out. The captain of the ship never leaves his private room by the way. Literally no one on board has ever seen him in person. Standard operating procedure and no cause for concern there. Here's the best part, this is just the episode 1 recap.
So if you're a technical sci-fi viewer that likes a bit of truth and realism in shows then you are going to hate Nightflyers. But if you have the ability to set that aside and just know that really stupid decisions will be made and that most things will not make sense when compared to realistic sci-fi shows then you might enjoy the show and find it entertaining.
Review of Nightflyers
