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Some shows deal with mundane topics but, through acting or storytelling or visuals or whatever, leave a impression, and some scenes pop up in your head months or years after you've seen them.

This is more or less the exact opposite. It managed to take future worlds that could've been fascinating, stumble right past the meaningful issues and focus on the fairly trivial problems of immature or outright not-very-bright characters, and do it in an intensely forgettable manner. I really hope it gets better, but I sincerely doubt it.

Really thoroughly disappointed in the first episode of this series.

It reminds me of ITV's Beowulf in the respect that they set out to produce a high quality drama to win audiences hooked on Game of Thrones and begging for more quality TV.

They ended up with an astonishing flop, virtually every aspect from the sets they wasted all their money on to the no-name actors who couldn't act.

With Electric Dreams I had the distinct impression that this would be Channel 4's shot at a series to rival Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror. A mostly dystopian twisted introspective on Human society and nature.

What we have in this first episode is a show lost of meaning, lacking any feeling of a believable world inhabited by people who could be us. We know Richard Madden can put on a good performance, but the scripting is thin and lifeless making predictable and uninteresting turns.

Books do not simply translate directly to TV or Film, they require a complete reworking, artistic vision and careful scripting. This episode has none of this, it is a bore to watch.

I can only hope more for the rest of the series. The first ep should really have been a strong one to hook an audience and convince them the show is worth sticking with - as such I am not holding out much mope for the coming weeks and will likely only be setting aside the time if they show significantly more promise.

Feign all the dismay you wish, but this is just unwatchable.

o Muddy sound. In the first episode, the male lead's affected thick accent is pretty much impossible to decipher.

o Plodding pace. Super easy to fall asleep. Emma Thompson showing up and quivering her lip would actually be an improvement.

o Thin plots. Anthology SF has been done to death, and we're all too well acquainted with the dynamics of a short story stretched to fill an hour, but this fails to meet even that low bar.

Black Mirror manages to do distinctly better in each of the above. Watch it instead.

This series proves that high paid actors are only as good as their script. Black mirror is a fantastic representation of what I like to call future science fiction. The story arcs in black mirror are refreshing and mind bending. With what I can only assume, a lower budget and not so well known actors, Black Mirror easily destroys Electric Dreams.

In Electric Dreams you will find no originality. The stories are tired and dated. Every episode seems to get worse and worse. I would go into specifics but I'd rather not waste my time and you shouldn't either. It's quite sad too because with the acting power they have at their disposal this series could have been phenomenal.

I really enjoy Philip K. Dick's work and was very excited to hear about this series. Since my family all like science fiction, I thought that this might be a show I could watch with my 15- and 12-year-old boys. I gave up on that idea after the first three episodes I viewed: "Real Life," "Autofac" and "Human Is."

Each of these stories featured sex scenes that left very little to the imagination. From lesbian sex to fellatio to threesomes, each episode explored a facet of human sexuality I'd rather not share with the kids just yet.

Then there was the swearing.

I was very disappointed that the author's work was elaborated upon in this way to suit modern audiences. I think that the merits of the work speak for themselves and there was no need to create mini R-movies for this series.

To much sex but not enough story telling. Just filth.

If you love Philip K Dick' work, don't watch these. His work is absolutely contemporary as it is without the need to add explicit sex, homosexuality and other "modern times" context. Fabulous stories converted into boring 40-min pieces of nothing. Sad to have watched