Pilot

In London , in 2032, society and public order have broadly collapsed and there is a shortage of food and supplies. After the death of his wife Bea, Chaplain Peter Leigh is contacted by USIC executive Vivian Hades and shown by David Morgan, USIC, co-owner and founder of the colony on the desert-like exoplanet, begging Peter to come to the colony . Peter is the author of a book on the history of war. Peter Morgan, David Morgan, David Morgan, David Morgan, David Morgan, David Morgan, David Morgan, While Sara Keller is going jogging in the desert on one of the following mornings, she has a vision of her daughter calling out for her mother in the dunes. This sara discovers the rover that David Morgan had on his excursion, half-sunk in the sand, with blood-stained wind shield. In the colony, Paul Halloran tells Peter about his racing horse that came to death on Halloran’s wrongdoing, which he deeply regrets. Sara Keller David Morgan, goal Danesh, the colony’s boss, refuses. The next day, while drilling for underground water, Paul Halloran experiences a vision of his dead horse, and attempts to reach it, he steps into the operating drilling gear and is fatally wounded. The colony’s crew and their leader, Danesh, conclude that the visions are not randomly caused by the environmental conditions but are some form of attack on the crew. Danesh invokes a state of alert and, with David Morgan missing, assumes the controlling position of the colony. Peter discovers a secret message in David Morgan’s room and location coordinates. He takes a rover to go into the desert to the coordinate spot. He is stopped by Sara Keller, but she decides, apparently against Danesh’s orders, to let Peter go and find out what happened to David Morgan. Bea. Bea. Bea. Assumes the controlling position of the colony. Peter discovers a secret message in David Morgan’s room and location coordinates. He takes a rover to go into the desert to the coordinate spot. He is stopped by Sara Keller, but she decides, apparently against Danesh’s orders, to let Peter go and find out what happened to David Morgan. Bea. Bea. Bea. Assumes the controlling position of the colony. Peter discovers a secret message in David Morgan’s room and location coordinates. He takes a rover to go into the desert to the coordinate spot. He is stopped by Sara Keller, but she decides, apparently against Danesh’s orders, to let Peter go and find out what happened to David Morgan. Bea. Bea. Bea.

Cast

• Richard Madden as Peter Leigh, a chaplain ^[7]
• Aislín McGuckin as Vivian Hades ^[7]
• Jonjo O’Neill as David Morgan, the colony’s founder ^[7]
• Anil Kapoor as Vikram Danesh, the Colony’s Chief Executive ^[7]
• Antje Traue as Sara Keller, the colony’s security officer ^[7]
• Michael James Shaw as BG ^[7]
• Haley Joel Osment as Sy, a botanist ^[7]
• Mark Addy as Paul Halloran, an engineer ^[7]
• Zawe Ashton as Severin, the colony’s medical doctor ^[7]
• Maureen Sebastian as Alicia Reyes ^[7]
• Flora Spencer-Longhurst as Bea, Peter Leigh’s wife ^[7]

Production

The music was by Martin Phipps . ^[7]

Theme music

The show’s theme song, ” Human “, was written by the English singer-songwriter Rag’n’Bone Man .

Reception

The pilot received a positive review from Beth Elderkin in io9 who complimented MacDonald’s direction and Madden’s acting, but criticized that other characters were poorly developed. ^[1] Andrew Liptak wrote for The Verge that the show could become “a compelling, thought-provoking story” ^[5] with themes reminiscent of Stanisław Lem’s novel Solaris ^{[ clarification needed ]} (adapted into films by Boris Nirenburg , Andrei Tarkovsky And Steven Soderbergh ) and the short-lived 2011 BBC drama Outcasts ^{[ clarification needed ]} .

See also

• The Expanse (TV series)
• Dune (movie) (classic sci-fi film set on a desert planet)
• Sci-fi with possible aliens or people posing as hallucinations or ghosts (etc.)
  • Where No One Has Gone Before (spaceship crew has visions at outer rim)
  • Spectral (movie) (2016 movie about war with man-made appearances of Bose-Einstein Condensate )
  • Interstellar (movie) (2014 sci-fi film)
  • 2010: Odyssey Two (1984 sci-fi film)
• List of original programs distributed by Amazon # Pilots

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