Binged on Helix for a few days. It's a SyFy original series, that honestly, isn't bad. It's about a CDC team investigating some messed up events in an arctic-based rare diseases lab reminiscent of the Wildfire lab from the Andromeda Strain. Some of the writing feels a tad lazy, but I like a few of the characters quite a bit, and there is a lot of intrigue. Backstabbers backstabbing backstabbers kind of stuff. I'll say this, the show at the end is very different from the show at the beginning, with significantly higher levels of suspended disbelief, but it's a fun ride. I'll be watching the second season hoping that they maintain some of the parts that I really liked about the first.
That shows annoys the hell out of me but I've still watched half of the first season. It's fun at times, but dear god the characters are stupid. It suffers from every character making illogical choices and doing things that a normal person in that situation would never do. Getting beyond that is hard at times. It reminds me of a failed show from the mid-2000s, Threshold.
Sometimes writers need characters to make poor choices. They can accomplish this by essentially creating a 'stupid ball' that gets passed around, causing them to make mistakes the character wouldn't otherwise. Helix is very guilty of having a large, easily spotted 'stupid ball.'