Halfway through the first episode and there's a few things that are really throwing me off and making me view it as a cheesy super low budget sci-fi series..but it seems to be taking itself pretty seriously so that's not going to work.
The first scene with the driving...oh god why did he have to keep twisting the wheel back and forth like they used to in shitty old movies. Nobody actually drives like that and it looks silly. If the road was actually bumpy to where constant steering corrections would be needed, please just shake the camera around a bit.
When the main character guy starts firing off the gun at the forest creatures and runs out of ammo, he's still pretending the gun has recoil. Tiny nitpicking thing but pretty annoying.
During the statue ceremony when the town is first being shown, the second I saw two families on stage and one had a daughter and one a son, I knew there would be some bullshit romeo and juliet opposing family bullshit going on. That was just horribly annoyingly predictable. 5 minutes later pissed off brother protecting the sister, check. Overly stereotypical characters and unfortunately I think that family storyline is going to be a central part of this going forward.