Driving by their deep will to start a new life and forget their bad past, a group of people agreed to travel to space searching for a new planet for their new beginning. At first things seem to be good, but suddenly they find themselves entering a mysterious area and their spaceship is damaged. They struggle to survive.
It's a sleek and well-crafted drama that leans on familiar tropes. ... But once it sorts out its various threads, Origin could become a much more fascinating show.
The show feels like a social experiment in trust and power dynamics, which may be further complicated by the revelation that one of them isn't necessarily a passenger at all.
Origin hits all the right notes, but until it can get a chance to turn them into a new song, all that can be said of it is that it is a compelling mimic.
What happens when you convene a ragtag collection of (hot, young) damaged people sent to inhabit a new interplanetary colony? The answer: not much, apparently.
There are parts of Origin that work, and there are parts that don't. But, the parts that do, do so well and shoot so hard for the moon that they ultimately out shadow the lesser parts enough to create a reliably entertaining B-move romp in deep space.
Unfortunately, despite Origin's good intentions and mysterious manner, it's simply too derivative and absent of any originality to really recommend an immediate watch.