The drama series revolves around astronaut Nico Breckenridge, who focuses on a unique experience. Nico begins the task of exploring the origin of a strange artifact, where she and his young crew face an unimaginable danger during that journey but continue to walk on what may be a one-way mission.
Another Life [is] a pleasantly cluttered new Netflix series that hybridizes Arrival, Annihilation and Interstellar into something less heady and more adventure-driven.
Another Life is just another sci-fi drama with a semi-interesting premise and unfulfilled promise. The characterisation is shallow, the effects are amateur and the plot plodding.
They look and act more like the cast of a slick, youth-focused soap opera than the crew of a serious space mission, and their technical acumen mostly amounts to yelling at each other.
The result is a cut-rate sci-fi series that blatantly lifts from the likes of far more memorable genre films, particularly Alien and Arrival, in lieu of formulating its own meaningful set pieces, let alone its own story.
Despite its potential, Another Life just feels like a generic, humorless space adventure that's likely to crash and burn long before it unravels its big mysteries.