There's not a lot of artistic flair to Kevin MacDonald's direction, but he tells the story cleanly enough and there are some fun quirks to the execution.
The show is based on the cult novel "The Book of Strange New Things," by Michel Faber, and presents a convincing if intentionally uninviting view of the future, where Patsy Cline music is pumped in on a continuous loop.
Oasis is occasionally too hefty, but when it can relax it works as an interesting and haunting mystery laced with mysticism and a lingering creepiness.
People who watch nothing but SyFy programming and GoT disciples who really miss Robb Stark are the target audience here; everyone else may feel like this slow-burn space-madness headscratcher simply isn't their cup of Tang.
Oasis ... is a taut, suspenseful, character-driven one-hour space drama set in the not-so-distant future on a habitable but increasingly haunted planet, Oasis.
