Decent sci-fi action and a charismatic new Master Chief make an attempt at breaking the video game adaptation curse.
Halo Episode 1
2022 is a strange time to release a Halo TV show. While the franchise was a hot topic in Hollywood in the 2000s, the Halo series as a whole seems like less of a juggernaut today. While the latest game, Halo Infinite, was well received, there simply isn’t the whole-hearted enthusiasm the series garnered in the days of the original Xbox and Xbox 360. Is the age of Haloover? Is the TV show the start of a new golden age for the franchise?
The first episode answers “no” to both questions, while offering up some decent sci-fi entertainment. There’s some geeky fun to be found in “Contact,” if not quite enough polish and shine.
Quick clarification: the TV series is not canon to the games, per se. Instead, an alternate “Silver timeline” established for the show allows the creators to mix-and-match familiar concepts from the games, books, and comics in any way they see fit for the new medium.
Our point of view character is primarily Quan Ah (Yerin Ha), the daughter of a general leading a settlement on the planet Madrigal, which seeks independence from the government that rules both Earth and all of humanity’s colonies in space. Although she’s up to teenage hijinks at the start of the episode, it’s not long before her life becomes irrevocably intertwined with Spartan Master Chief John-117 (Pablo Schreiber).
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