The Halo television series, based on the popular video games, won’t be premiering on the Paramount Plus streaming service until March 24th – but the reviews of the first two episodes are in, and I’m not seeing raves. Our own Alex Maidy gave them a 6/10 review, which you can read HERE. I’ve also seen the episodes referred to as “tepid” and “an intriguing mess”. So this may not be awesome, but there’s still going to be a lot of curious people check this show out when it’s released. And even after seeing the reviews, I find the new trailer that’s embedded above to be quite cool and enticing.
Halo stars Pablo Schreiber as Master Chief,
Earth’s most advanced warrior in the 26th century and the only hope of salvation for a civilization pushed to the brink of destruction by the Covenant, an unstoppable alliance of alien worlds committed to the destruction of humanity.
Schreiber is joined in the cast by Natasha McElhone as Dr. Halsey, “the brilliant, conflicted and inscrutable creator of the Spartan super soldiers”; Bokeem Woodbine as Soren, “a morally complex privateer at the fringes of human civilization whose fate will bring him into conflict with his former military masters and his old friend, the Master Chief”; and newcomer Yerin Ha as Kwan, “a shrewd, audacious 16-year-old from the Outer Colonies who meets Master Chief at a fateful time for them both.”
Also in the cast are Shabana Azmi, Natasha Culzac, Olive Gray, Bentley Kalu, Kate Kennedy, Charlie Murphy, and Danny Sapani, with Jen Taylor as Cortana, “the most advanced AI in human history, and potentially the key to the survival of the human race”.
The Halo series is said to “weave deeply drawn personal stories with action, adventure, and a richly imagined vision of the future.” The show is executive produced by Steven Spielberg, showrunners Kyle Killen and Steven Kane, Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey of Amblin Television, in partnership with 343 Industries, director Otto Bathurst and Toby Leslie for One Big Picture, Scott Pennington for Chapter Eleven, and Karen Richards.
Paramount Plus has already ordered a second season.
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