This show was one of my favorites in 1985, when I was eight years old. One mistake many reviewers make when looking at such sci-fi shows is to think they were intended for an adult audience. Otherworld was family TV, about a family getting sent to a parallel universe. Modern sci-fi is considerably more sophisticated in terms of plots and special effects, but shows like Otherworld and Voyagers were really interesting, whereas others like Battlestar Galactica 1980 were awful. It's great to see Johnathan Banks ('Mike' from Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul) 30 years younger and playing a bad guy. Perhaps if this was filmed 15 years later, with a Malcolm-in-the-Middle-esque Bryan Cranston as the dad and Banks as the evil android Gestapo stalker, it would have done better.
Review of Otherworld
