You have to appreciate the crew behind "The Realm of Never" and their willingness to go beyond their limitations and instead of serving up stories about vampires and murderers, instead choose to explore stories that challenge our imaginations more. For that you have to credit it. The ambitious efforts make it worth at least a gander.

With subtle shades of “Dark Shadows” and “The Outer Limits” within the seams of its story and concept, “The Realm of Never”, an anthology series, is an ambitious endeavor that speaks of sheer great expectations from its cast and crew who seem to want an anthology series to blossom from its limited budget, but sadly, the series never feels like anything more than an acting exercise for its entire cast. While I ignored the obviously limited budget in which to tell such a grandiose story of alien spores taking over the Earth, while its writers jabbed at current political currents of deteriorating civil rights, and the government funded surveillance of our homes which allow the aliens to invade, the concept and its episode are much too verbose to be either suspenseful or science fiction, so it feels more like way for its cast to explore soap opera acting as they go of f into long and drawn out monologues about the Earth being taken over, and its government officials insisting its only victims be locked up in concentration camps which sets up the basically expected climax, and the “Tales from the Darkside” inspired opening and closing sequences. While I knew what they were trying to do, “The Realm of Never” rarely ever reaches the point, nor do the plot twists and pay offs ever hit the audience as hard as it would like.

While I appreciated its ambition and determination to be an individual anthology series, "The Realm of Never" and its episode "Moratorium" is much too verbose for its own good and challenges its audience not to follow the story but to keep track of a story that's never cogent enough.

• For more information on "The Realm of Never" and its episodes, check out its interactive website: http://www.powerofcohesion.com/main/index.html

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