The Outer Limits
Creators:
Leslie StevensCast:
Kevin Conway, Beau Bridges, Helen Shaver, Frank Whaley, Rebecca De Mornay, Beau Starr, John Savage, John Heard, Blu Mankuma, Annette O'Toole, Timothy Busfield (more)VOD (2)
Seasons(7) / Episodes(153)
Plots(1)
Like the classic 1960s series of the same name, each episode is a celebration of the human imagination in which humanity's exploration of new frontiers in technology, outer space and the human experience reveal our greatest hopes and darkest fears. Stories on The Outer Limits have explored the consequences of such controversial and thought-provoking topics as genetic manipulation, alien visitation and life after death. (official distributor synopsis)
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I have heard that this is just a weak derivative of the once-cult series The X-Files. But it's not that simple. The Outer Limits is only connected to The X-Files through the genre, and beyond that, the series goes its own way. The episodes are not linked by the stories or the characters, only by the suggestive opening theme creating an atmosphere of mystery, brilliantly performed by Lukavský. Each episode presents a separate story with a twist ending. However, the problem is that all the stories can be labeled with the vague term of fantasy, where we find a wide range of genres from sci-fi, fairy tale, fantasy, and horror to mysterious stories. Simply put, not every script can meet the viewer's taste. True science fiction fans might be somewhat disappointed by the supernatural motif - you simply can't please everyone. In addition, the series was created by a large team of writers, so the quality varies and while in other projects, there is a descending quality trend after a promising start, here it's purely a gamble. A weak episode may be part of the first season, while a strong one may be in the final season. What's more, The Outer Limits came before the American TV revolution at the turn of the millennium, when TV production budgets significantly increased, so this project often had a desperately cheap studio execution. Overall impression: 55%.
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Twilight Zone wannabe. It is a great shame that The Outer Limits used up almost all of its potential immediately in the opening, feature-length episode where they adapted a perfect novelette by G.R.R. Martin, “Sandkings". The episodes that followed were just regular episodes where the high point is always the unforgettable theme tune. Unfortunately, it happened too often that the intro scene before the opening credits is outstanding and works as a teaser, but when the credits end we get a half an hour of boredom, and things only start to get going again toward the end. There were a lot of good episodes of The Outer Limits, but only very few of them are episodes of genius, while we get dozens of mediocre ones.
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