IOBdennis

I have NEVER walked out or stopped a streaming movie before this piece of self-indulgent, sophomoric crap.

It made no sense from frame 1. It wandered and meandered through inconsequential, nonsensical sophomoric drival. I couldn't even say it was in the genre of American Graffiti or Porkys.

Just finished 2 episodes of this remake. It is mesmerizing: the acting is positively incredible! And given this level of acting, the director must also be complimented. The characters are so real and fleshed out. The whole cast is amazing, riveting. The adaptation from the original Bergman film/series is also brilliant. The cinematography is masterful. I couldn't take my eyes off of each and every scene. The sets and location shots are positively dazzling.

This series harps on one aspect of the Huxley book: pleasure-seeking and emphasizes orgiastic activity. Ok. But the orgy scenes become so cookie-cutter and boring. The series also starts to feel long in the tooth by about the fourth or fifth episode. They could have cut it down. All of the updating too to make it PC seemed over-the-top. And the re-write of the ending was positively sacrilegious. Early on, the technological eye-candy is nice, but then the stuff just stops and falls into typical syfy soap. Acting was good so no fault with the actors here, but the writers should be barred from ever adapting another book into a teleplay or screenplay.