An anthology series of really short (20 minutes) adaptation of scifi/fantasy stories published in Metal Hurlant. It's hard to make an interesting story in 20 minutes, but some episodes work beautifully while others fail miserably.

Effects are usually well done though a little short on budget I guess. Acting is usually pretty poor but some _real actors_ prestations are worth it: Joe Flanigan, Rutger Hauer, John Rhys-Davies, James Marsters.

As expected from short 70's fantasy stories, characters are mostly stereotypes: heroes are super badass fighters, girls are super hot, alien villains are super ugly.

Episode quality varies a lot, but season 1 is pretty solid. Stories work well, character are interesting, and there's often an interesting twist at the end. Season 2 is several levels below. Stories are mostly boring, they didn't manage to compact enough interesting stuff in the given 20 minutes like they did on season 1. Characters are poorly written, and even if they tried to keep the ending twist thing, it almost always fails as you see it coming from the first minute, unless it's totally unrelated stuff that makes it more weird than interesting.

It's really too bad they could not keep the same level of quality as season 1, I would have been up for several seasons like this.

Best episode: Shelter me (s01e02).
On season 2 almost only the last one is worth watching.