this has improved a lot in its second season. the first seemed a bit aimless (but with lots of good ideas thrown in), whereas it now seems to be building towards something. the main characters are all very cliche sci-fi standards, but the politics is quite interesting (apart from when that irritating woman - aversala? - who can barely talk let alone act, is involved).
personally, i love the belter patois, and it makes sense that they would wind up talking like that (in the same way that people from all over the world dumped in the caribbean developed a common language organically). i'm a bit of a linguistics nerd, so i love examining the words and their etymology (there's a wiki all about it).