Why’s he kept around? Because he might be able to help as a translator with whatever extraterrestrials humanity might be able to locate. On board the Nightflyer – which is on a mission to make contact with alien life – is a stereotypically mercurial telepath called Thale (Sam Strike) who continuously harms characters for no other reason than the fact he’s clearly a psychopath. He meets the rest of the crew who, despite all clearly being different people, have the same personality type, which is moody and incapable of anything other than exposition. We then flash back – though this isn’t made entirely clear in any way shape or form – to a very handsome man with no personality called Karl D’Branin (Eoin Macken), who has been asked to lead the yet-to-be-ill-fated Nightflyer expedition. After Matheson sends her message and severely wounds her murderous colleague, she kills herself with a buzzsaw. She sends a distress call for nobody to rescue or board the ship, hoping that all parties deem it a lost cause. Agatha Matheson (Gretchen Mol) is a psychiatrist running from a crew member on a homicidal rampage. well, it tells the story of something, doesn’t it? The show starts with a flash-forward to the crew of a ship called the Nightflyer. It was later adapted into a film in 1987, which serves as a partial inspiration for the show. Nightflyers was a novella, written by Game Of Thrones’ Martin, in 1980. Which is why you should run away from it as fast as you possibly can. In fact, if you watch it on Netflix, you are paying for the privilege. But I did it, because I’m paid to come back.

I had to break multiple times and it got harder and harder to think I should come back.

I watched the whole first episode I was sent (although, confusingly, the entire show has already aired in America, so the secrecy is somewhat baffling). And yet, I was tasked with writing about it.

Grr martin nightflyers