When travelling at speed in space, the likelihood of actually hitting something is practically zero, by all accounts, given how far apart everything actually is in relation to any spaceship that humanity could realistically create. Do we really even need space lighthouses then?
I am of course rerferring to the latest stab by MGM+ at delving into sci-fi featuring exactly that; a lighthouse in space created to help spaceships to navigate their way around the galaxy. Apparently.
Popping up in this, maybe surprsingly, is Lena Heady (Game of Thrones, 300) and Stephan James (If Beale Street Could Talk, 21 Bridges). Currently, we're waist deep into it with five episodes released and three more to come (tbc) and if we're honest, it's a bit of a mixed bag overall, with some genuinely decent moments in a mass of exposition (what do you expect, stuck on a space station for who knows how long) that can become tiresome after a while.
Honestly, I've spent most of the running time wondering when it will get going, before realising that this was actually it, got going, doing its thing. There are loose ends aplenty which have yet to be addressed, though I imagine (hope) this is not by accident.
If you can ignore the sets (not convincing, really), the frankly ridiculous premise and concentrate just on the thing as a performance piece, then you can expect a half-decent experience, but this is never going to set the world on fire as it lacks the innovation that sci-fi fans expect of their stories and not mainstream enough to pull in the average Johnny-punter. Not a vehicle to convince you to part with your hard-earned for a subscription. Not even close to what Apple are doing at the moment.