The I-Land might be Netflix's worst-ever original series, but it's a "fascinating disaster"

The Hollywood Reporter

"Netflix's The I-Land is awful, but it's the kind of awful that leaves me with questions at every turn," says Daniel Fienberg. "No aspect of The I-Land works and every bad aspect builds on the bad aspects before in a way that makes it pretty clear that nobody involved could have been under any misapprehensions about the quality of the endeavor. The nicest and most generous way of looking at The I-Land is to view it as the ill-fated first pancake from the batch coming out of a new production facility in the Dominican Republic, reenforcing and feeding the infrastructure in the hopes that future projects will benefit. You're supposed to throw the first pancake away, or bury it under the other pancakes, but this wasn't one of those international acquisitions that Netflix sneaks onto the service for word-of-mouth discovery."