The Hood Maker

Having seen this episode, I can only hope the rest gets better. In my opinion it was too dark (I get the feeling darkness in a movie/TV show is usually designed to hide the poor scriptwriting). Too quiet ( Straining to hear speech). And too slow. As I said hope it improves, will give it another couple of episodes.

It has been said that this is the strongest episode of Electric Dreams anthology series. This does not bode well then.

There was nothing too special about The Hood Maker and the dark, grungy look of the dystopian society was just off putting and very much a cliché.

The visuals might had been inspired by Blade Runner but the story was more reminiscent of Minority Report.

The police use Teeps, who are special telepaths to read people's mind and the public are not happy as it is an invasion of their privacy. Special hoods have been created to block the telepaths.

Honor is a Teep but her new partner Agent Ross is someone she finds hard to read. This is a relationship based on mutual distrust as they hunt for the hoodmaker.

The story is a parable of modern times. The influence of government snooping, anti terror legislation etc. It just a shame that the episode was too po faced and drab.

I think there are a couple failings here. One has to do with the history preceding this episode. How did all this come to be? Give us some sort of milieu to work within. Once we have telepathy, there are factors that need to be addressed. How does one put in filters in a mind that is not a machine? Do they occur naturally? Also, when we reach a stage where there is utter bad on both sides, who are we sympathetic toward? This seemed endless at times and I have to admit I never understood the point. If it was simply that telepathy takes away our humanness, that would have worked. But I'm not even sure that's it.

Keeping in mind there are still 9 episodes to come, all with completely stand-alone stories, so far it seems this might be a new masterpiece to keep your eyes on! Throughout the whole episode I felt like being swept away by the story. The story was brought to life by a lovable cast, great sets and decor lots of mystery and questions in the story line to demand your attention and tickle your desire to keep on watching.

As I want to keep this review spoiler free, I can only urge you to watch and be (hopefully) positively surprised, just like I was. I am really looking forward to the next episode with a new story, new cast and new director. If they are all gonna do a tribute to Philip K. Dick's work as done in the first episode, the next ones are also gonna be really satisfying!

This episode was the most boring of all. Were the teeps a different species? Where did they come from? Did they have neuro typical parents and were born that way due to a change in the environment? This episode never answers that. Instead, it left me with more questions than it provided me answers. Aside from the confused mess, it was also incredibly BORING. If you haven't seen this episode and want to watch it because there are only ten episodes in the series and want to watch all of them, prepare yourself to be confused and bored. Don't say you weren't warned.