How they manage to dull a story that includes a two-foot tall robot spider with red lasers shooting out of its eyes - a spider, mind you, with pretty great, albeit unintentional, comic timing - is through earnest, unceasing, and quite wearying self-seriousness. So much information is held back in Jeff Buhler’s 10-episode first season, and so many strange things keep happening (with unreasonably calm reactions from the people onboard), that “Nightflyers” quickly pivots from an intriguing foray into hard sci-fi to a confounding slog through the most boring blackness of space. The mysterious destructive force plaguing the characters also ends up leveling the series. Well, someone might know, but despite an “accident” involving glass that makes John McClane’s barefoot jog look pleasant and creepy ghosts trolling passengers in the hallways, well, no one’s saying what’s up. It malfunctions a lot, and no one knows why. You see, the technology onboard the eponymous spaceship, the Nightflyer, is malfunctioning. Not that far into “ Nightflyers,” Syfy’s bleak adaptation of George RR Martin’s bleak 1980 sci-fi novella, a large mechanical spider starts shooting up the crew with searing red laser beams.
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