Episode #1.1
- Episode aired Mar 5, 2020
- TV-MA
- 55m
When her boyfriend Sergei vanishes after starting a new job at the secretive Devs division of tech company Amaya, software engineer Lily begins to suspect that his disappearance may not be a... Read allWhen her boyfriend Sergei vanishes after starting a new job at the secretive Devs division of tech company Amaya, software engineer Lily begins to suspect that his disappearance may not be as clear-cut as it seems.When her boyfriend Sergei vanishes after starting a new job at the secretive Devs division of tech company Amaya, software engineer Lily begins to suspect that his disappearance may not be as clear-cut as it seems.
- Ronnie
- (as Shay Vawn)
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TURN THE GD MUSIC DOWN FOR CHRIST SAKE. Whomever thought it would be a good idea to blast that annoying whateveritis at 125db should be forced to listen to it with headphones for 24 hours at Spinal Tap 11.
Short version: Don't mistske Having characters do smart things with smart writing. If you're going to write for nerd/geek demographic, come correct.
Examples: (A) Don't make your genius characters sound "basic" in every other aspect of their lives/dialog (B) if your character is "neuro spicy", COMMIT TO THAT (none of this probably autistic but maybe not depending on what's easier for you to write) and (C) dont assume your audience is a bunch of simpletons (e.g. Adding forced, needless exposition disguised as dialog, having the genius character take all of 3 seconds to determine to interpret the meaning of something phenomenally complex in a matter of seconds, laying the plot out in plain English so the nobody has to bother thinking.).
In this episode, our hero is led to a new place of work and told there are NO CLEANERS "...so clean up after yourself...".
He then rushes to the toilet to be sick, which he does by putting his head RIGHT DOWN INTO THE BOWL. He then wipes the bowl out, then rushes over to the sink, where he scoops water into his mouth WITH THE SAME HAND.
There are some far fetched ideas in this show, but this is the one that lifts you out of the pretence. Come on Alex.
For starters, the idea that a building full of code-heads who have to do their own cleaning would have a toilet that's humanly tolerable, let alone one that looks like it's been installed that morning and then firehosed with bleach is a bit ridiculous.
Quite enjoyed the show though. Hope it doesn't degenerate into "she's got the thin, let's kill her".
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.
Did you know
- TriviaLily and her co-workers recite seemingly unrelated numbers in their office. They are calling out the numbers in the Fibonacci sequence, where each successive number is the sum of the previous two numbers, starting with 0 and 1.
- GoofsThe Devs office is mentioned as being inside a lead Faraday cage. A Faraday cage must be conductive and lead is not.
- Quotes
Forest: The universe is deterministic. It's godless and neutral and defined only by physical laws. The marble rolls because it was pushed. The man eats because he's hungry. An effect is always the result of a prior cause. The life we lead with all its apparent chaos is actually, a life on tramlines, prescribed, un-deviated, deterministic... . We fall into an illusion of free will because the tramlines are invisible and we feel so certain about our subjective state, Our feelings, our opinions, judgments, decisions.
- SoundtracksRegnantem Sempiterna
Performed by Jan Garbarek and The Hilliard Ensemble
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- Cathedral Quarry, Little Langdale, Ambleside, Cumbria, England, UK(Palaeolithic Period)
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