Stephan JamesHalan Kai NielsenWhy it may be worth watching
- Beacon 23 combines Sci-Fi & Fantasy and Drama storytelling.
- The principal cast includes Stephan James.
- Viewers currently rate it 5.7/10 from 114 votes.
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Beacon 23
No one escapes with their sanity.
Aster Calyx and Halan Kai Nielsen are inextricably drawn to Beacon 23. Navigating one threat after another, they unravel the beacon’s mysteries, just in time to face their most powerful enemy.
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Best suited to viewers looking for Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama. The available catalogue spans 2 seasons.
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artificial intelligence (a.i.)based on novel or bookmysteriousdeep space
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Beacon 22 is an original idea, I'll give it that.
A light house in outer space, where nothing is what it seems. Mixing mystery/thriller and sci fi action adventure.
Perhaps its biggest shortcoming, is it seems incoherent. Things happen but they don't tie together terribly well. This leaves the story feeling cluttered, for no reason that appears to make much rational sense.
Also, some of the back story elements, seem incongruous. Why for example, would futuristic, high tech space beacon need a metal rod inserted into gears to get the light work…
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Beacon 22 is an original idea, I'll give it that.
A light house in outer space, where nothing is what it seems. Mixing mystery/thriller and sci fi action adventure.
Perhaps its biggest shortcoming, is it seems incoherent. Things happen but they don't tie together terribly well. This leaves the story feeling cluttered, for no reason that appears to make much rational sense.
Also, some of the back story elements, seem incongruous. Why for example, would futuristic, high tech space beacon need a metal rod inserted into gears to get the light working correctly? Weird and oxymoron-ic, to say the least.
Season 2 is more incoherent than season one and is, quite frankly, largely, boring.
Sets are decent, acting is reasonable and CGI is mostly, well done.
In summary, could have amounted to something were it not for a incoherent and at times, thoroughly tedious story.
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