Surprised at the low ranking of a fabulous show, I read all the negative reviews. They only watched the pilot! To be sure, people who write reviews about pilots have no business writing reviews. A great many of those negative pilot-only viewers complained of another woke show. But had they actually watched the entire series, they would have seen that the ex white nationalist is a hero, and the black team member betrayed the team. The trouble with people who only watch a pilot is they have not a clue.
The show is close to fantastic. The intellectual action is taut, as is the physical action, the relationships between the characters are complex and not campy. The dialogue is dry and uncompromising. A couple of the recurring characters are pretty useless, and the photography is probably the worse feature. But the entire show is meant to look gray and bleak, as things were in Equilibrium. This show is also not like POI, it's not about some hero people looking to use AI to save situations, which is more akin to Minority Report, NO, this show is about beating the AI, which of course is impossible. Once Pandora's Box has been opened, specially if it was opened slowly through decades, it cannot be closed intentionally, for now the bureaucrats are intertwined with the AI, only a catastrophic unintentional event can truly reset the clock. But as with all authoritarian forces in society, the Résistance is key. And if 2020 is any indication of willingness to resist in society, we are truly doomed to repeat the past. Don't bother with the negative reviews, they only watched the pilot.
The show is close to fantastic. The intellectual action is taut, as is the physical action, the relationships between the characters are complex and not campy. The dialogue is dry and uncompromising. A couple of the recurring characters are pretty useless, and the photography is probably the worse feature. But the entire show is meant to look gray and bleak, as things were in Equilibrium. This show is also not like POI, it's not about some hero people looking to use AI to save situations, which is more akin to Minority Report, NO, this show is about beating the AI, which of course is impossible. Once Pandora's Box has been opened, specially if it was opened slowly through decades, it cannot be closed intentionally, for now the bureaucrats are intertwined with the AI, only a catastrophic unintentional event can truly reset the clock. But as with all authoritarian forces in society, the Résistance is key. And if 2020 is any indication of willingness to resist in society, we are truly doomed to repeat the past. Don't bother with the negative reviews, they only watched the pilot.