The first episode starts out like your average horror film. Kid sees something scary in the water, something mysterious happened to a U.S. submarine. 'Hey look! It's /Swamp Thing/ in the ocean!
The series throws in all sorts of mysterious things that have been so over done in the movies that they are actually predictable. Let's sum it up:
Giant monsters the size of Godzilla are appearing all over the world, walking on beaches and eating boats, and the government is trying to simultaneously study it and cover up it's existence. Despite the fact that there are apparently tons of these creatures and they're showing up all over the world, only a small handful of non-government people have seen the creature and when they try to talk about it to others no one believes them.
When one washes up on shore: Instead of making an announcement to the world that a new species has been discovered (like when giant octopus and giant squid are found) the government quickly comes in and does a massive cover up. The lead character is a scientist who's supposedly the first person to see one of these creatures, and instead of working with her the government is trying to shut her out and ruin her life for being curious and poking around.
The cheese factor doesn't stop there! Contact with the creatures blood apparently can change peoples DNA. Wow! Shocking! I would have never saw that coming... You may think I've just spoiled it for you but I guarantee that if you've got half a brain and seen a few horror films you'll see it coming half an episode ahead.
But wait there's more! The boy who sees one starts researching marine biology and reading books on strange creatures and gets made fun of by his friends, despite the fact that he never says or implies that he things the creatures are real. Even better, when the boy is watching a TV show about dog training his mother says, "But we don't have a dog." If one of your family members was watching a show about dog training and didn't own a dog, would you really find it strange enough to comment on the fact they don't have a dog? I mean, maybe it's just something to watch on TV that the boy found interesting, or maybe the kid wants to learn about training dogs before asking his parents if he can get one, or perhaps the boy just wants to learn something! Why is it suddenly suspicious that he's watching a show about training dogs just cause he doesn't have a dog?
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I'd give the show one star, except it actually has pretty good acting and special effects. The actors and directing is pretty good, even if the scripts are borrowing ideas from every B-film ever written.