10 Sci-Fi TV Shows That Wasted Incredible Premises

This 2019 Drama nearly grabbed top spot thanks to having the widest discrepancy between quality premise and woeful execution. The premise is somewhat like Lost, but if anything, actually had more potential due to its grounding on Earth and Avengers Endgame like scenario. Sadly the show is a bit of a car crash, with cliched plotting and terrible acting the order of the day.

The premise sees a passenger flight take off from Jamaica, and after encountering a storm, seemingly land a few short hours later at their destination point, New York. Then comes the ripping twist, with the reveal that the plane has actually landed five years in the future, with the flight presumed crashed and the passengers dead.

The exploration of the passengers reintegrating into society alongside the investigation of what actually happened seemed a setup for spectacular results. Sadly, the show proved to be extremely pedestrian, with acting that wouldn't be accepted on the cheesiest soapie and the most cliched scripts known to man.

Melissa Roxburgh plays lead detective Michaela Stone, a passenger from the flight who hears mysterious messages in her head that prove to be important information. The scenes in which Stone hears the voices are unintentionally hilarious, Roxburgh's limited acting skills combined with lazy scripting making for the most ham-fisted television you'll see.

Every big moment in the script is signposted a mile off, while we care less and less about the fate of the surviving passengers the more time we unfortunately have to be in their company.