Wonderfully offbeat film!

Stylish but barely mediocre overall

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

Is a pretty good show but it loses at least 2 points just because the main character guy whispers the entire f*cking series. Who the f*ck has a whisper as his standard voice, does the f*cker have no backbone or some sh*t?But yea, all in all pretty good series, I'm usually pretty happy when it isn't the repetitive Hollywood crap.

I read the premise of this show and thought it might be a bit of a boring corporate espionage series after a couple of episodes. I'm glad to say I was wrong.I do get the parallels to Resident Evil that people have mentioned, but I think this was done much much better, it manages to hold intrigue all through the episodes, while still gradually giving a clearer picture.Being as it is Netflix there does of course need to be leftist propaganda and in typical regressive style they wax lyrical about "big pharma" in more than one episode, however these scenes are brief and do not detract from the series terribly. Another Netflix leftist trope is that White People are always the corporate bad guys or at best white people being 'shades of grey' while 'brown' minorities are *always* the only completely good characters. That holds true in Helix with the Alaskan natives being the only truly good, perpetual victims. However, again unlike programs like Quantico, this does fit in naturally and is not overly emphasized AND all the acting quality is good.This is really worth a watch

Let me start off telling you that i'm not Anti Netflix. What ever Netflix made is terrible for some reason. A cliché from every single other popular movie or TV show ever made. The acting you can compare to a college, a few good ones, rest is mediocre and a few terrible.With that being said, glad to know they can bring in SOME concepts of new stuff onto there website. But in general, its all bad.

I'm writing this more than a year after I last saw the episodes. I don't remember all the details, but I remember my reactions to the show as it was airing. I have to agree with most of the reviewers. Completely bizarre production. Intriguing premise but it got buried under waves and waves of strange conspiracies, weirdness for weirdness' sake, scenes created for shock value and more.It seems that, at some point, the writers and producers realized how wild the concept was getting, so they just went with it. Come up with more strangeness and see how far they could spin everything around and grind it up to see what came out the other side. I will say that the show was unusual for Syfy and for science fiction. I think it was influenced by American Horror Story (which I haven't seen), mostly in the resetting of the story universe each season. I think AHS does that. That happened with Helix when they moved from the Arctic base to the tropical island. I don't pretend to make any sense of it, nor do I think there was much sense to be made. I'm sort of glad I sat through it. Real life can sometimes be dull, depressing or mundane. Even if this show wasn't that coherent, it provided moments of true weirdness. That has to count for something, doesn't it?