Five hundred years in the future, a renegade crew aboard a small spacecraft tries to survive as they travel the unknown parts of the galaxy and evade warring factions as well as authority agents out to get them.
Everyone said I would like this show. Netflix kept telling me to watch it, messages kept begging me to sit down and get sucked in. Well I finally did watch Firefly and it was actually really really good.
Firefly is one of those recommendations that I would see after I rated pretty much every movie or tv show that I watched. I thought it was just a glitch in the system, but evenutally I gave it a try and wow was I surprised.
The pilot, to be completely honest, was not that engaging. I had no idea what was happening or who the characters were. I knew there was a war going on...and that was about it. This show doesn't actually give you any background until the beginning of episode 2 (which is technically episode 3 because the pilot was 2 hours long. I can't believe I actually watched the whole thing)
But AFTER the pilot everything started getting good. Interesting was flying at your face from every direction. I was excited, scared and freaking out all at the same time.
The premise of the show is this: in the future, Earth gets used up so everyone moves to another galaxy to live. In this galaxy people inhabit new planets and moons, each one looks different because each one has different resources. The Firefly crew (Firefly is the brand of spaceship they travel in) takes smuggling jobs between planets to make their money. Essentially they live off the grid because the central government doesn't like them.
If you can imagine it, this show is a mix between a sci-fi and a western. Kinda trippy, but it actually works.
This show only had one season, but they also made a movie, Serenity, to explain the abrupt ending of the tv series. I can honestly say that if I watched this show while it was aired on tv I would have been yelling at the screen when the 'last' episode finished. There wasn't really a cliffhanger...it was just another episode. There essentially was NO ending!
Thank god the writers had the sense to fix this because the movie gave the series an awesome ending...at least it went out with a bang. Literally :)
Overall 5 stars. If you can get past the pilot this show is awesome. Each character brings their own personality to the table and the show didn't last long enough to screw up. Totally worth watching!!
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