'Pandora': TV Review

, in the sense that I'm pretty sure not all of the show's sets could be toppled by an aggressive sneeze.also has occasional bursts of anachronistic humor that seem intentional and verging on effective, rather than relying on accidental laughs to break the monotony.stars Pricilla Quintana as Jax, a young woman whose parents disappear from some distant planet under mysterious circumstances.

Starting classes a couple weeks late, Jax has to hurry to make friends including Raechelle Banno's Atria, Ben Radcliffe's Ralen, Martin Bobb-Semple's Tom, John Harlan Kim's Greg and Oliver Dench's Xander Duvall, a TA whose very British manners obscure possibly several dark secrets. Actually, all of Jax's friends have secrets. Atria is a clone! Tom is telepathic! Ralen is the son of an alien ambassador! Greg is Australian! Etc.

Creator Mark A. Altman has imagined a distant future in which characters talk like they were raised watching WB dramas from 20 years ago and where their stable of pop culture references stalled out in the late '90s.

There's one featured bit of creature makeup. It's silly. There are some computer-driven space effects. They're rudimentary. Banno's character has the show's most ambitious styling and she looks like she won fifth place in the Leelook cosplay category at a regionalfan convention. There's one action scene in which the primary sound effects are so close to the actors yelling "Pew! Pew!" that I wonder if they could have saved five or 10 bucks by just doing that.

By this standard, it makes total sense that the actors are all attractive and diverse and none of them are acting in the same show. There's no common accent, which I actually like. It's a future-as-melting-pot. Less good is that nobody has settled on a comma tone or common cadences. Quintana could be on. Huntley thinks he's doing Shakespeare.

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