Boring, tedious and poorly directed.
I've never played the Halo video games, so I can't compare this series to the original material, but this is a mediocre generic sf TV show.
I already gave up on this series, but I read that they changed some things, so I thought it might be better. It's not.
This is another generic series where maybe one out of ten episodes is good. For the rest of the series, we follow characters that no one cares about, and some are even irritating. And the characters are there as filler and because the producers demand so or the show will not be financed.
One of the biggest problems is the direction, which, along with the bad script, is terrible. The shaky camera makes every series or movie worse, everything looks cheaper, and it's noticeable here. The series may have a solid budget, but this kind of direction makes every movie worse.
Kwan Ha and Soren's wife, characters no one cares about, take center stage in this episode, and at one point Kwan Ha tells Master Chief what he should do. Laughable.
At one point, Soren's wife threatens a guy while Soren waits outside. Yes, his wife should be sent to extract information, while Soren, an ex-Spartan who is built like a tank, waits outside. Hilarious.
Things like this are the reason why less and less people watch these series or movies at all, as soon as they see a hint of "modern film production" they simply change the program.