Karl to help communicate with the aliens, but his bloated notoriety at the start best mimics the show’s own misguided sense of grandiosity. In case it’s not already clear, there’s a lot going on in “Nightflyers.” Much of this review could’ve been dedicated to the dwindling importance of Thale (Sam Strike), a telepath brought onboard by Dr. Of course, he uses his knowledge of the ship to spy on everyone onboard, including Melanthia Jhirl (Jodie Turner-Smith), who knows he’s watching her bone down with other crew members, seems to like it, and may or may not start an earnest romantic relationship with the Cap’n to reward his perverted voyeurism.
Holding court as the creepy caretaker is, of course, the captain a presumably handsome gentleman named Roy Eris (David Ajala), and we have to presume he’s handsome because he refuses to leave his private quarters and only appears in digital holograms - like any rational human being might, if they knew their spaceship was haunted.
Agatha Matheson (Gretchen Mol), a xenobiologist named Rowan (Angus Sampson), and Lommie (Maya Eshet), a cyberneticist who can talk to computers by plugging a cord into her arm, need to be on this ship because this is the ship that’s haunted. How they manage to dull a story that includes a two-foot tall robot spider with red lasers shooting out of its eyes - a spider, mind you, with pretty great, albeit unintentional, comic timing - is through earnest, unceasing, and quite wearying self-seriousness. So much information is held back in Jeff Buhler’s 10-episode first season, and so many strange things keep happening (with unreasonably calm reactions from the people onboard), that “Nightflyers” quickly pivots from an intriguing foray into hard sci-fi to a confounding slog through the most boring blackness of space. The mysterious destructive force plaguing the characters also ends up leveling the series. Well, someone might know, but despite an “accident” involving glass that makes John McClane’s barefoot jog look pleasant and creepy ghosts trolling passengers in the hallways, well, no one’s saying what’s up.
It malfunctions a lot, and no one knows why. You see, the technology onboard the eponymous spaceship, the Nightflyer, is malfunctioning. Not that far into “ Nightflyers,” Syfy’s bleak adaptation of George RR Martin’s bleak 1980 sci-fi novella, a large mechanical spider starts shooting up the crew with searing red laser beams.
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