Hmmm....[spoilers]

It’s already been said by some that this is basically a frustrating and underwhelming series; I have to agree. I did enjoy it, in the terms of that it was entertaining enough, but each episode left me asking too many questions....which were not addressed at all in that specific, or in any further episodes... and getting irritated by the ridiculous science behind the storyline, or the theme in general.
I also found that the main storyline about contacting the Volcryn got way laid as the series makers may have wanted to explore other ‘cool things’ that often happen in space....like abandoned ships, cannibalism and infectious diseases; these were niggles for me. It was like after episode five, they decided to do each episode almost as it’s own thing.

For example:
The abandoned ship - The Eagle Three - was, naturally, manned (no pun intended) by a group of women who surprise, surprise had gone a bit mad/killed the men folk, but at the same time needed at least one to regularly harvest sperm from (via a ridiculous looking device) in order to produce their (human meat) food, via cloning. Ok, what?! Don’t get me started on the fresh, red blood smeared about on the walls.
Rowan and Tessia’s baby is born through inducement because they suddenly discover she has a heart problem/is dying in the womb....and then suddenly has a lethal fungal/spore infection, a deadly risk to the ship....how on earth did a baby, in-utero no doubt, contract this? There would be little logical point for the organism to infect an unborn baby.
So much there that is actual of interest, but doesn’t make much scientific or logical sense.

Then there were the facts that, for example:
There was of course, the standard fare of a crew member repeatedly seeing their dead child.
Needs be to manually override something in the most dangerous place possible. Send in Mel, but later it’s ok?
It’s ok that the captain is a weird, hologram-using/engineered robot pervert, sleep with him anyway.
Oh, there’s a rabid, laser mecha-spider running amok (potentially)...as the troubled captain, I’ll just turn it off with a voice command...naughty mother for doing that...but we will say nothing about it.
The health care on the ship is atrocious.....a clearly very traumatised man who has been in more than one dangerous situation and has witnessed the gruesome deaths of colleagues - and is being plagued by hallucinations - is left to wander the ship, seemingly unnoticed, having a breakdown.....then he gets murdered by the captain on the bridge. Anyone bothered?
What was the significance of Tessia and the bees? Why were the bees all over the grave, axe, Rowan etc. after her death?
There’s a really dangerous criminal mind on board, that the crew basically wants to despatch...but he seems to be in an open, unguarded ‘room’...then eventually is allowed to roam freely and use his powers, basically to play weird ‘games’ with bored/adrenalin junkie crew members and becomes buddies with the man he set on fire? Ok!
Let’s do experiments on all kinds of things, like the ‘probe meat’, or making an antidote (to a fungal infection?) in non-lab conditions...heck, we don’t even need to wear masks!
A woman has a baby, in traumatic circumstances...there’s no blood....at all...anywhere.
Why did Agatha kill herself in such a horrific way? Where was she going when chaos was ensuing?
An axe wielding maniac can get on to the bridge and hack up the captain, again, not much security going on...no one seems that bothered....then he gets put under house arrest in his cabin....but can easily be let out by Carl, his colleague and suddenly be back to normal! (But when an hysterical woman is on the bridge she gets dragged off by two ‘security’ men).

There were interesting concepts but none were thoroughly pinned down, explored, explained, relevant or tied up.
Most of the time, even though it was clear on general time periods that had passed/continuity...the timing of sequential events was not, and actions seemed to follow on from each other too fast, too slow, or were jumbled.

Unfortunately, due to the beginning spoiler, you know it’s all going to end badly for the Nightflyer and crew (at least the ‘contact project’ crew), which already sets the (interesting, dark, space horror) tone. I mean, if everything went ok, it wouldn’t be as entertaining of course; we expect some problems, some injuries, death etc. You would already expect the premise to be a dark and violent one coming from the pen of G. R. R. Martin. It was lazy though that they covered that opening scene again....they could have shown it from a different angle, and with different shots, but no, we had to watch it all the way through again, in situ. And the ending...grrr....still so much left unexplained!

It did have a great opening credit sequence though, very good sound track especially; full of promise.

When comparing this to Another Life, again I agree with others that AL is better.