Halo Episode 1 Review

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The long-awaited Halo television series is now officially here and the first episode is available to watch on Paramount Plus. With the brand-new Halo series which has already been renewed for Season 2, it appears that there are going to be some twists and turns that deviate strongly from the game on which the series is based. Whether or not that's going to work in the long run isn't known yet. It's going to take at least another episode considering that most of the divergence from the video game franchise came near the end of the premiere.

The first episode does what any first episode of any series needs to do, which is to set the world and set the story. In that regard, the premiere episode does a fairly good job of laying everything out. There is the United Nations Space Command or UNSC which is the major earth military force that is fighting a war with insurgents on colonies that want to be free. Into that war comes an alien army known as The Covenant. At this point in Halo, it's not known just what Covenant forces want but it's pretty clear they have very little regard for human life. That's despite the fact that at least one of the higher-ups appears to be at least partly human. Unfortunately, it's the introduction of The Covenant that gives the series its first real bumps in the road where audiences are going to need to suspend their disbelief in order to enjoy the plot so far.

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To Halo's credit, the show didn't take too long to introduce either The Covenant, or the Spartans' Silver Team and its Master Chief. The Silver Team is a group of four Spartans which are UNSC's unbeatable super-human assault force that are the point of the spear in the war