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Saw this on the CRACKLE app. Fun show. Addictive. Main characters were captivating. I Wasn't a Peter Weller fan until now. Robocop didn't do it for me at all. His role can be just a hair over the line at times with the cigar but overall the entire cast was getting it done very well. Loved the intro. It was a bit heavy on the repetition of certain musical overlays. A few episodes had heavy nudity and mind blowing adult situations (not complaining). The storyline could be viewed as one-sided and shallow. Weller's on screen son had a weird relationship with his girlfriend. Some of the characters were underutilized and one was killed off with an awkward transition. There was lots of potential for gadgets considering but not created. A made for TV movie would have been nice. Other series to consider: Last Resort, Powers and Chosen:the box

This show had it all, a good cast connecting from the very first minute, a good unique storyline and good ratings. And it was cancelled. Just as Space above & beyond and Earth 2 to mention just 2. Shows that have been cancelled for the most weird reasons.Odyssey 5 is simply the best mix of scifi you can get. It's funny as stargate but more serious. The actors do stuff you would expect you would do as well.It's just a shame that it won't comeback and a pity that no other network had picked it up when it was cancelled. Now we will never know how the story will unfold.

... to quote an old Ian Hunter tune. When I saw this one on sale at my favorite DVD shop, I did some research and found it to be a) canceled and b) rated to be a top of the tops show, so I found out I'd take a chance and added it to my collection.The series hit me like a ton of bricks. For one, they actually had RUDE comments to each other and they dared using f-words! This made the dialog fresh, real and very funny. Dialog, generally, in the show is (well, was) intelligent.The actors is a chapter by itself. All of them do a marvelous job, but I'd like to emphasize that Peter Weller is PERFECT as Chuck Taggart.One other thing about the show that I like is the fact that the episodes are interconnected in such a way that they tell a story, and not like, say, Star Trek Enterprise, where every episode is yet another travel in any arbitrary direction and you can see the episode totally as a standalone. O5 is more like the later seasons of Stargate SG-1: You'd better pay attention or you will miss something.Some guy or committee at Showtime found out that "No, we don't want this", so it got canceled after season 1 finished. Too bad and actually for GOOD sci-fi, a disaster. Odyssey 5 was probably THE best series in this category, and they canceled it. I can only suggest that people reading this that love the show, go over to Manny Coto's fan site (address on his IMDb profile) and register their opinions in the forum, so that Mr. Coto HOPEFULLY does what he say he want to do: Continue or start over.

I am nearing the end of watching Odyssey 5 on DVD and I am getting angrier and angrier!!Why? because as I approach the end of the DVD's I am aghast that this is yet another excellent sci-fi series that had been cancelled prematurely. Okay the idea is not new, you could call Odyssey 5 the thinking mans back to the future. And the beings that look like humans are not new either but the stories are original and we are faced with the human dilemma of knowing that something is going to happen and whether you should go along with it or change it thus altering the time line. And there are lots of human reasons why the time line is altered. Odyssey 5 is heavy while another excellent show cancelled before its time (Firefly) is light. Having said this both of these shows could exist together and both were worth and least three series at the very least. I can only assume that because Star Trek had finished the powers at be decided that the public had run out of love with the sci-fi genre. Absolute rubbish, the latest Star Trek failed because they went back in time when they should have gone forward. Please how can you have the first Enterprise looking more technological than the Captain Kirk Enterprise? Anyway back to Odyssey 5, this is a good thinking man sci-fi that does not rely on funky looking aliens that just happen to speak perfect English. Odyssey 5 has good story lines a good acting cast and should have run and run and run. I managed to get the whole series on DVD at a price that equates to 76 pence per episode and after watching 17 of the 21 episodes, this is a mega bargain!!!!. Furthermore I will be writing to Sony television expressing my disgust that such an excellent show was cancelled. I have one last thing to add, BRING ODYSSEY 5 BACK!!!!!!