Surface

Mediocre in all respects and, at a time when we have Invasion, Prison Break and Lost to choose from, why waste time watching this? The story is terribly predictable, the characters badly written and the acting is even worse. The characters are perhaps the biggest stumbling block here; there is just no powerhouse here to tide things over in weaker episodes (of which there are a lot!). It has an interesting storyline about water creatures, but that is often sidelined and the space is devoted to the trials of the little boy and his “monster" chum or some similarly “compelling" adventures. All together this makes a series that has potential on paper, but loses it in the “family" approach to the story. Although it improves drastically as of episode eight, but still remains within the mediocre bracket, and so it is no surprise that it was canned after fifteen episodes. (20.02.2006)