I can't speak to anything else Ball has made, haven't seen any of it, but I'm honestly quite liking what I'm seeing here.
I know this isn't actually the same timeline/continuity as the original film, but I do wonder how close to that timeframe we are here. There's definitely a pretty significant time jump since Reeves' films, the Forbidden Zone seems to either be established or in the process of being established, etc. Not to mention some pretty direct iconography from the original being lifted, with a literal recreation of the beach shot.