MGM+'s series fails to live up to its lofty ambitions and ideas
In its first season, Beacon 23 billed itself as a sci-fi series about trust. In the farthest regions of the galaxy, a beacon was the setting for a constant cat-and-mouse game between Halan and Aster . Each had ulterior motives for being there, and the story of what happened to the beacon keeper who had preceded them soon unspooled as a preamble to an increasingly intricate mythology about quantum A.I., rogue algorithms, mythic minerals, a rebellion, and even a budding romance.
The need to be introduced to new characters in almost every new installment, each weighted with hefty backstory and enough characterization to make us care for them, starts to get exhausting, even as new additions to the cast like Ellen Wong nicely offset the sour notes James is called to play ad nauseam as Halan. On that point, the most interesting focus of season two is the development of Harmony, Aster’s former personalized A.I. who is clearly evolving before our very own eyes.
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