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Awkward, unpolished, cheap.. and totally awesome 😄
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
03/26/25
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james o
the show was influenced by Star Wars, Blake's 7, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Farscape.
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12/26/24
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Ben R
Still absolutely essential viewing despite, or maybe because of, the shonky sets and effects.
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09/03/22
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A great British comedy mixed with an interesting plot device - throw a buffoon millions of years into the future and see what happens.
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01/09/23
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Red Dwarf is arguably my favorite comedy series of all time, but Season 1 is a very, very rocky start, featuring some unnecessarily aggressive aspects and some ultimately pointless episodes. I mean, it's hardly all bad - 'Future Echoes' is a creative episode in concept, has some solid story beats and some good comedy, and there is some entertainment value in 'Waiting for God' and 'Confidence and Paranoia', the former acting as some interesting (albeit short-lived) worldbuilding and the latter taking another stab at fusing high-concept sci-fi with comedy, to decent results. However the pilot, 'The End' is quite underwhelming and features some very obvious jokes that any fan of Comedy TV will see coming, and the finale, 'Me ^2' ('Me Squared') does have some decent character building, and I do dig that it does humanize both Lister and Rimmer, but it ultimately feels like they didn't quite have enough material to fill out the runtime. The absolute nadir of the Season however, and very likely the entire franchise, is the absolutely pointless, unfunny and frankly reprehensible 'Balance of Power', which is just Lister being a douche for 30 minutes. And that is the biggest problem: For all 6 episodes, we're supposed to love Lister and hate Rimmer, but for a huge chunk of the first 4 episodes (as well as Season 2's 'Kryten'), Lister is just an absolute scumbag - he has no boundries, he goes on the offensive consistently when unprovoked, sinks really low with his verbal blows and he is unrelenting. If Rimmer weren't made of light, Lister would be that guy sneaking up behind him and throwing things at his head while he was minding his own business. Season 1 Lister is one of the worst, most worthless and thoroughly despicable human beings in the history of television, and this first Season of Red Dwarf suffers greatly from this. Ah well, at least he got his comeuppance in Season 5's brilliant 'Demons & Angels'.
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Rated 2 out of 5 stars
01/09/23
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The introduction to one of my all time favourite shows, I couldn't ask for a better introduction to a show.
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01/09/23
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Episode 1
Aired Feb 15, 1988
The End
A lone human (Craig Charles) is the sole living survivor aboard a galactic mining ship orbiting Saturn's moons.
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Episode 2
Aired Feb 22, 1988
Future Echoes
Rimmer and Lister see the future when they break the light barrier.
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Episode 3
Aired Feb 29, 1988
Balance of Power
Lister wants to date the dead console officer; Rimmer wakes up with another's arm.
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Episode 4
Aired Mar 7, 1988
Waiting for God
Lister discovers startling facts about Catkind after learning to read the language.
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Episode 5
Aired Mar 14, 1988
Confidence and Paranoia
A mutated form of pneumonia causes Lister's hallucinations to become solid.
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Episode 6
Aired Mar 21, 1988
Me2
Tired of sharing space with Lister, Rimmer begins a blissful new relationship with the ultimate roommate: a holographic replica of himself.
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