Seleção Artificial

A bit self-repetitive at times but all in all I think it's a good documentary. As for improvement, it would have been interesting to see more of the science behind genetic engineering and how it works. Also, I think there would have been room for more fruitful debate. However, not biased at all in my opinion and proves that there are more than two sides to an issue.

The first episode focused mostly on the scientific breakthroughs in gene editing in the past few years and where state of the medical and biohacking community is at, and it was fascinating. The next three episodes all really focused more on the ethical questions which, while important, I felt caused the series to begin to drag. I was personally more interested in the science around all of this and the documentary was lighter than what I was looking for in this area. This probably could have been condensed to two or three episodes and would have had better pacing.

An enlightening series on a subject that scares most people. Gene editing is the future. It is much debated and this is a nice introduction to both sides of said debate.

This is one of those documentaries that make you wonder if these are indeed the best of times or the worst of times. We are basically children playing god, with science that is a lot more advanced than our capacity for reason. And this documentaries does a good job at covering both the incredible feats we are now capable of (with hints of even more fantastic things in store in the future) and all the societal and moral struggles we are barely equipped with to handle the implications and consequences. The pacing may be a bit uneven at times but all in all, highly recommended.

I went into this with cliched expectations for what a documentary on a topic such as this might look like. Boy was I wrong.

This is an excellent balanced documentary which shows you both sides of the argument and covers all of the complex ethical concerns for a subject such as this. The human stories are sensitively and beautifully woven throught and keep your attention till the very end - enough to want to binge watch this.

I came away from it with a lot of excitement for what the future may hold and also some misgivings .... I'm waiting for my son to be old enough to be able to show this to him. Absolutely unmissable.