Episode #1.1

I was really hopeful going into this show, but after watching the first episode, that hope is gone. None of the characters are likeable. None of the characters are interesting. The "mystery" is SO vague it's boring. There is nothing in this first episode that makes me even a little interested in seeing the second one. "Mystery Box" stories are so overdone, and lead to inevitable disappointment. If the acting was good, or the dialogue, or if there had been even a TINY HINT as to why I should care about ANY of this, I might have kept watching. But the acting was flat, and the scenes were clunky, and the "mystery" is a total bore.

Before I go into the actual review, just a small "rant". I came here to see find info and found a single review giving it 4/10 by a cruise01 user.

First off, it is impossible to rate a TV show by a single, or even a couple, of episodes. So I feel a bit stupid by doing the same, but this cruise01 is so wrong about what he wrote that it merits a reply.

To cut to the chase, cruise01 is bad reviewing for the sake of bad reviewing. Not only that, he gave spoilers without tagging his/her review accordingly.

It is very common nowadays for YTer wannabes go trashing things left and right just because, think about cancel culture mixed with a need to "say something". I really can't tell for sure tho, as it is always very difficult to make sense of nonsense.

What I do can tell is that this series will probably NOT be bad. If anything, it might fail only due to being very ambitious. The very first episode is touching timeless philosophical questions, and bringing in quantum computing into the mix.

Do we live in a Laplacian Universe? Does everything has a cause? If everything has a cause, is there freewill? If there is no freewill, can you be accountable by your actions?

Take cruiser01's review for instance. Was it a product of random typing, or cause-consequence relationship between ignorance and cheap internet availability?

The theme surrounding freewill and moral choices is rehearsed at the very first episode, and the project with the "quantum computer" (which seems to be a sort of super quantum computer) seems to be at the heart of everything.

No doubt a quantum computer is a very curious thing. Right when we know everything is essentially indeterminate by the Uncertainty principle, we use just that to build a deterministic machine.

But I should notice that the way a quantum machine works is a matter of engineering, even though the show wants to explore this concept and its relationship with those philosophical questions.

Let us see how things evolve. Right now I give it a 9 because I really enjoyed the first episode for these reasons: very solid acting, good scenery, the theme is interesting (something lacking nowadays), oh and no "quantum" shenanigans while still validly talking about it.

I watched Ex Machina and really enjoyed it, hope to see similar content here.

First, why did the producers think it was a great idea to blow out my speakers with the loudest Saxaphone blare throughout this episode? The music is bad... I don't know what mood they're trying to set, but annoying is probably the wrong choice.

Second, the story.... is what? The main? Character is murdered after reading a mysterious code... why? Who knows. And then his girlfriend immediately thinks he's been murdered because that's the logical first step after someone doesn't come home. The writing makes no sense. The story is so thin they've padded it out with long streaches where people look at things. The things don't matter, people are just standing around looking. This episode could be condensed down to 10 minutes and lose nothing.

The acting is bad. Like, real bad. Accents are heavy, and the 'russian' guy doesn't have a Russian accent.... the American Asian girl who's not from Asia... has an accent... why? Why not? The range in acting goes from overacting to well under acting.

I have no idea what this show is about and at the end of the first episode I have zero desire to find out. But I'm so annoyed by the entirety that I felt compelled to write this review in the hopes I can save others from wasting their time.

I like the idea of the show and I'm excited to see where it goes.

I don't why people leave reviews just to bash on other people's review. Everyone has a right to their own opinion even one does not agree with it. So dam-37330 please stop being a hypocrite. Thanks.

2 out of 5 stars.

I love Alex Garlands previous films like Ex Machina or Annihilation. Which they are sci fi and have a heavy philosophical theme. Sadly, this fx series Devs is going to be a lackluster. It will be a slow development and direction which is difficult to keep an interest. I like the tone and direction. But the script is slow moving. With a young guy getting a secret job in Devs and disappearing. Which his girlfriend is trying to figure out what happened. The series is not for everyone. But i will find it difficult to see this series slowly revealing its storyline.