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Based on the trailers, which were suspect at least, and the fact that Apple did this, I did not have high hopes. However, it's worse than I could have ever imagined.

The first episode felt like a guy got high, and told the story of Foundation to his roommate in five sentences, who made a movie out of it the next morning, including 2 ideas out of the 5 he vaguely remembered. (He did not get the gender of the main characters right, but what do you expect after that much weed...) It was all over the place, but at least resembling the original.

But the second episode....

What were they even thinking??

Even if you are not familiar with the original story, you will realize this is just a mess. And I would not mind that - there are many bad series out there, this is just another one - but why drag Asimov's name into it?

This is not "based on", and not even "inspired by" the books - it's defecating on them. One of the greatest sci-fi novels of all time, in the hands of those who just wanted to use the name to bring in some viewers. What a shame!

Probably the least engaging series I have seen in a long time. And revealing in episode two who Demerzel is? Oh come on!!! Have you even read the books??

Two stars because they've tried.

I really liked season 1 of the series: a new kind of format, amazing graphics, sometimes thought provoking and serious, even dark, sometimes just simply funny. Diverse themes and animation styles. It was kind of like Black Mirror, but animated. Or like reading a collections sci-fi short stories.

But season 2... I was looking forward to it so much, and it let me down. The animations are as good as in season 1, and there is one or two episodes that are kind of OK, but otherwise they have forgotten *the* most important thing that made season 1 so good: the stories. I don't know what they were thinking, but they are very basic in season 2, sometimes do not even make sense. The punch lines are basically missing, or very weak.

Season 1 = 10 starts. Season 2 = 3 stars.

I am a big fan of the work of Stanislaw Lem. His style is not for everyone, but his creativity is unparalleled: he was at the top of his craft, a master of his language, who constantly surprised the reader with amazing and thought provoking ideas. So I was eager to see Gyorgy Palfi's version of the novel - but boy, was I disappointed!

First of all: the story of the movie has *nothing* to do with the original material, except for a few, very vague references. It's just a big, chaotic mess, where unnecessary scenes follow each other seemingly randomly. It's not artistic just because if makes no sense, okay?

"Disappointed" is not the best word, by the way: I felt *angry* after suffering through this joke of a movie. I felt like the director just defecated on a masterpiece. How come he was even allowed to use the same title as the novel?

I want to build a time machine now, just to go back in time when we decided to push "play", so that I can stop ourselves. Watching a switched-off TV for two hours is a *much* better way of spending your time then seeing this tragic nonsense.

Avoid at all cost!