Onisciente

Entertaining dystopian sci-fi series. I think six episodes is a good number for these kind of shows, although I hope there's a second season on the way.

Similar in tone to Aldous Huxley's Brave New World - the action is divided between a controlled social system that delegates law and order inside the city to a central computer, and an unmonitored outside zone. The design of the city settings is minimalist Stepford-wife suburban and rather stylised (it reminded me a little of the Good Place - a colourful and safe, yet socially stifling and souless utopia). The outside scenes are more redolent of contemporary Brazilian backstreets (or how those are depicted in other Brazilian movies I've seen). I enjoyed the contrast - which is very clear. As another reviewer said, it's essentially a Brazilian Black Mirror. But it has its own flavour and Carla Salle is rather compelling in the central role.

I get the points they are trying to make but despite sticking actual code on screens, Mr. Robot style (though in this case often where is makes no sense to be there), they pretty much missed the boat on the tech. For instance the drones are smart enough to learn to predict out comes from actions and even monitor your vitals to sense how nervous or angry you are but ignore differing outcomes and are not only totally confused by basic tampering but do not report tampering even when that results in them going offline. Even the most basic security camera systems are better than that. That is like designing a plane to crash instead of land.

In all basically the plot is a cross between Robocop (corporate take over of government) and Person of Interest (rise of the surveillance state) though both of those are closer to reality of where tech actually is going. Even if you are not technical enough to notice those flaws you might make out the other basic plot holes. If you can ignore all that though other wise it is a half decent who-done-it.

Didn't have much expectations, because I was distracted by the rating 6,4 given by IMDB users . But I was pleasantly surprised by this series, full of tech, mystery, crime, a very interesting plot and good acting as well. Binge watched Omniscient in one sitting, it was that good!

I hope Netflix renews Omniscient for a season 2, because there is so much more to explore.

Netflix's Onisciente is far from perfect in case of its concept, since it lacks important aspects of technology and processes related to it, that would not be missed in real life, but it's direction, camera work, actors' play are quite good. I would love to see a second season of it.