Wednesday, 29 April 2020
DEVS
Enjoyable scifi series about a super-magicky Googly-ish company that developed a quantum computer able to simulate basically everything, thus being able to see both backwards and forward in time, all because its founder (played by Nick Offerman, him of Parks and Recreation and the best "There's only one thing I hate more than lies, and that is skimmed milk. Which is water lying about being milk.") lost its daughter.
Lots of discussions about multi-vs-single world.
Nice, but... geeks don't all know fibonacci sequences by heart.
That's not what coding looks like.
There's technical illogic (why can't she reinstall dead boyfriend's phone from the cloud *again* after it has been wiped?)
Where are the Russians? They don't care one of their operatives & handlers just disappears? (oh they do. sorta)
I didn't like the end. Suddenly they run simulations as a world? And why is there no DEVS machine in the simulation? That would make it really interesting, and make the jump to "we are living in a simulation" ourselves.
6 out of 10, I'd say.
Also, had a bit of a Utopia feel to it. And I did like some of the visual tricks to show multiple worlds.