This was an excellent start to a show.

I loved the timer. Knowing only the trailer going into it I thought the series was going to dump us into an existing world and the season would end with the timer at zero.

Obviously as the episode went on, it became clear we were going to reach 0 in this episode.

I hope the series jumps around and references the timer because I’d love to see more before and after. We got a huge time jump between “Paul” (guy who discovered it) figuring it out and scientists starting to make it.