Looking at the comments here should I bother any further? The science is dodgy? The crew are ill-disciplined and very stupid. Their leader has no leadership qualities. The mission is compromised. Why can't they find better people to man this very important first contact mission? The b-story with the husband on Earth is going nowhere very fast - just sack him and get someone who knows what they are doing!
If it's a pain then yes, why bother? There is no point on watching anything that doesn't appeal your senses of satisfaction. Over the years there has been a number of first contact stories, and many of them has been about hostile aliens and even this turned out to be about one. But, the way they went telling the story was very controversial as instead of strict military code followers they sent out a punch of radicals. You take a sample of current scientist and you'll find out that there are a number of them that follows same patterns.
I do agree that the producers should have put a bit more effort on making it more official, just like it was in Nolan's Interstellar. Wait, no, they put a farmer in ship and sent him in the study a black hole. At the end it was very Kubrik like movie that hinged on the success of Nolan's previous products. Not a great success in my eyes.
In this one, towards the end, they got more of the plot together and they showed some progress towards a real plot. What I didn't liked was that once again they were showing humans against a god like species, that has been doing things in this corner of the galaxy for a long time. Yet, nobody never saw anything. UFOs were denied until one landed in the North America and said nothing.
I was surprised that they didn't tried to nuke it. No, instead they got together talented, smart kids who knew how to think outside the box, where as similarly aged military people would have ... personality issues in the space, while they were hunting the source for the alien species. Why is that there cannot be something similar to the Sagan's Contact or Spielberg's Close Encounters of Third Kind? Why does all the stories that end in the small screen has to go through the similar type of plots that at end are nothing more than invasion type stories?
In fact, why there are no stories about the Alien Artefacts or super old history that get uncovered in our solar system, which then leads to a hunt for the source ... wait, am I describing the Expanse and Babylon 5, as both involved history and aliens to explain cosmos teaming with life. What if whenever we finally go out there, that we find out that is the case, and Another Life was just a fantasy?
I'm sorry that this series didn't please most of you, and I'm apologise for getting your hopes up for something good. Sorry.