You can see the first episode on HBO.com for free but need to register first, reason I ask is it was a little choppy and I dont know if the director was trying to get that gritty documentary feel to it or HBO has bad streaming and the cameras are fluid. It gave me a headache to watch. I regularly stream videos from Netflix to my computer and they run real nice. The computer effects of the ships were a little cheesey too but it looks like a good series by Steven Speilberg and Tom Hanks