What’s it about? Touya, the last child born on the moon, now resides on the commercial space station Anshin—and has to play host to the tourists visiting it from Earth, much to his annoyance. The latest interstellar holiday quickly goes awry when the AI that runs the station suddenly and mysteriously reboots, and a comet leaves Earth’s atmosphere on a collision course with Anshin.
The Orbital Children is a two-part film series that Netflix has, for reasons best known to Netflix, segmented into six episodes and released as a series. As such, the double-length “premiere” is not so much the first episode but the first act of the first movie… something that admittedly feels a little odd to review. Whether or not it was initially intended to be sliced off into its own episode and discussed as such, this is what we’re working with, and I can certainly confirm that the first forty minutes of Orbital Children make a strong impression.
The Afictionado 