Survive - Season 1

Sophie Turner takes the lead in a tonally uncertain drama about young people's mental health, set in a psychiatric facility called Lifehouse, equipped with landscaped gardens, a palatial pharmacy, and a "feelings doctor just for you."

It looks and feels like prestige Hollywood fare, and Turner is superb as a woman haunted by her own illness.

In the uneven but intermittently startling and compelling "Survive," Sophie Turner from "Game of Thrones" turns in passionate, empathetic work as Jane, a troubled young woman with a family history of suicides.

Suicide haunts compelling, cliffhanger-heavy survival show.

There are some nice moments of cinematography throughout but overall this is a decent story told in an unconventional manner. Still, if you are shelling out for Quibi, you could do worse than spending ten minutes each day seeing where this story goes.

It's essentially The Mountain Between Us for a younger set, only more concerned with depression and suicide, and is an odd fit for Quibi's limited dimensions.

As much as Survive escapes becoming completely melodramatic thanks to nuanced performances, there's a disconnect between the characters and the story at hand, often leaning more on its visuals-and Quibi's distribution method hinders its connection.

One way or the other, I'd like to bet the pairing of Turner and Hawkins will continue to make Survive an engaging, entertaining watch as we get more installments.

At best, Survive is intense and austere. At worst, it's needlessly triggering and somehow still wildly boring.

If you can get used to the small segments, Survive is a pretty compelling tale of what it means to want to live when all hope seems lost.

Survive might have worked in another format but on Quibi it comes across as gloomy and tedious.

The phone dimensions are a bit limiting for a show of this scope, but the life-and-death drama eventually sinks its hooks deep into you thanks to a revelatory performance from [Sophie] Turner, who gets some great material to work with.