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Episode #1.1

  • Episode aired Mar 5, 2020
  • TV-MA
  • 55m
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7.9/10
2.5K
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Nick Offerman in Devs (2020)
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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.

  • Director
    • Alex Garland
  • Writer
    • Alex Garland
  • Stars
    • Sonoya Mizuno
    • Nick Offerman
    • Jin Ha
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    • Director
      • Alex Garland
    • Writer
      • Alex Garland
    • Stars
      • Sonoya Mizuno
      • Nick Offerman
      • Jin Ha
    • 14User reviews
    • 19Critic reviews
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    Sonoya Mizuno
    Sonoya Mizuno
    • Lily Chan
    Nick Offerman
    Nick Offerman
    • Forest
    Jin Ha
    Jin Ha
    • Jamie
    Zach Grenier
    Zach Grenier
    • Kenton
    Cailee Spaeny
    Cailee Spaeny
    • Lyndon
    Stephen McKinley Henderson
    Stephen McKinley Henderson
    • Stewart
    Karl Glusman
    Karl Glusman
    • Sergei
    Alison Pill
    Alison Pill
    • Katie
    Jefferson Hall
    Jefferson Hall
    • Pete
    Linnea Berthelsen
    Linnea Berthelsen
    • Jen
    Aimee Mullins
    Aimee Mullins
    • Anya
    Amaya Mizuno-André
    • Amaya
    Caitlin Kimball
    • Callie
    Shayvawn Webster
    Shayvawn Webster
    • Ronnie
    • (as Shay Vawn)
    Alejandro De Mesa
    • Carlos
    Akshay Kumar
    Akshay Kumar
    • Ray
    Oliver Powell
    Oliver Powell
    • Ozzy
    Eysteinn Sigurðarson
    Eysteinn Sigurðarson
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    7dalefl

    Pretty decent start

    So far so good on the story. I've always found quantum theories and realities interesting. I can't imagine how much infrastructure would be required for a quantum computer, but the premise is worth a ponder or two. The acting was good as well. I only have one complaint after the first episode and that is...

    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.
    6culbeda-533-446965

    Stupid dialog, poorly acted/directed

    Tip for show writers/runners:

    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.).
    8ste-34

    Small rant about plausibility in film.

    Things that drive me up the wall in film and TV: 1. When people are perfectly happy to kneel/sit on the floor of a public toilet. Who in their right mind?

    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".
    1piercestjohn

    Bad

    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.
    2williamcity

    Slowly falling asleep

    Watching this episode, I slept twice, and I have to watch it again and again before I can watch the first episode. The story took many pieces to create a simple volt line,After the breakpoint, it is unknown. The only appreciation is the art and photographer's intentions. Very misleading

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    • Trivia
      Lily 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.
    • Goofs
      The 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.

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      Performed by Jan Garbarek and The Hilliard Ensemble

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    • Release date
      • March 5, 2020 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official sites
      • BBC Programmes
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    • Language
      • English
    • Filming locations
      • Cathedral Quarry, Little Langdale, Ambleside, Cumbria, England, UK(Palaeolithic Period)
    • Production companies
      • DNA Films
      • DNA Films
      • FX Productions
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    • Runtime
      • 55m
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Stereo
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.00 : 1

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