This review, without spoilers, made me want to binge-watch this whole series.
Hawley balances the themes with a crackling plot that manages to be smart without being overly clever or resorting to artificially withholding information to force a mystery. Morrow (Babou Ceesay), a cyborg who works as the security officer on the ship that crashes into Prodigy territory, has intriguingly opaque motivations that made me want to keep watching just so I could know what his deal was. Plot threads come together late in the season in an elegant way. The cause-and-effect math adds up. The plot is not difficult to follow, and things that happen will not be very surprising if you’re paying attention, but they are satisfying in the way a well-told story always is. The writing rises to the level of the money on the screen, which usually isn’t the case. In the past year, Shogun was the only other mega-production that was written as well as it looked.