Lost in Space, Season 2 (2019)

 

The Robinson family have been stranded on a hostile alien planet for the past seven months, eking out a precarious existence while toxic sea and unbreathable air whirls around the small, human-safe 'bubble' they have created.  It is becoming more and more clear, however, that this bubble will one day burst, and they're all on a long, grim road to eventual death.  So in typical Robinson family fashion, they undertake a high risk, "do or die" gambit that will either kill them quickly, or give them the power they need to get their vessel back into space.  From there, they might at least be able to get out a signal to other human ships, or find a more liveable planet.

Of course, this is the new Lost in Space, so they have Parker Posey's malevolent Dr Smith to deal with throughout this whole gambit, and even if they do succeed in getting off-planet, you can bet that their troubles are simply going to multiply from there.  "And now something else goes wrong" is pretty much the show's default plot.

So you can expect to see the Robinsons once again battling a series of mishaps and disasters as they try to keep themselves and those they care about safe, though in this season they'll face more human interference in those efforts than just whatever scheme Dr Smith is up to in order to get herself out of the trouble the last scheme got her into.

This 'more human opposition' thing is probably my least favourite thing about this second season of the show, actually.  One of the things I liked about the first season was that (Dr Smith excepted) everybody wanted to do the right thing, and even if they disagreed about what that was, they didn't start trying to knife each other in the back over it.  The human rivalries here weren't all that interesting to me: probably in large part because The Robinsons Are Always Right.  I mean, I get that these new adversaries are meant to contrast utilitarian pragmatism vs Robinson idealism vs Me Me Me Dr Smithism, but that doesn't really work when utilitarian pragmatism isn't actually utilitarian and is more just 'being a dick'.  We already have Dr Smith for that.

Still, the show has a good cast and some decent science fiction scenarios, so if you're an SF fan it is worth a look.  I'll definitely be checking out the third and final season when it arrives.