Lost in Space

You know the thing where you’ve finished a show you actually cared about and nothing else looks watchable. That was me after Game of Thrones fell apart. Stranger Things was somewhere in the void. House of Cards was done. Netflix had plenty of shows—it always does—but nothing that felt worth the commitment.

Then I saw there was a new Lost in Space. A reboot of that old ’90s show, apparently. The trailer looked solid. Robinson family crashes on an alien planet, there’s a robot, everyone’s fighting to survive. Standard sci-fi stuff, but executed in a way that made me actually curious instead of just turning it on as background noise.

There’s something about survival stories that does it for me—not the treachery or the drama, but the idea of people figuring out how to live in an impossible situation. Maybe it’s because real life is easier when you stop thinking and just keep moving.

I’m not sure if Lost in Space will actually be good. But for the first time in a while, I was curious enough to want to find out.