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Tyrannical creatures known as the 'Legislators' are relentlessly surveilling, tracking, and suppressing the population in this highly relevant and provocatively detailed story about rebellion.

For those who look and listen closely, there is a feast of subtle details here that will undoubtedly upset the technocrats and delight those of us who are paying attention to trends here in the west. This script might feel disjointed to some, and threatening to others, but for the intended audience, every word in the script is an quiet nod of affirmation from across the room.

Finally, a sci-fi movie made for the people, not for the critic class. I'm honestly surprised this movie got made. We are starving for more stories like this.

As a fictional, dramatic show, I suppose it was passable. I'd give it 4 stars, except I'm absolutely starving for someone to make a Kennedy biopic with real facts and a fearless examination of major events, like JFK's challenge to Israel. Documents were recently released detailing meetings where JFK demanded Israel allow inspections of their nuclear program. Of course, those inspection demands were quickly forgotten after he was assassinated. I've got a 10 star review waiting for the bold filmmakers who are wiling to present that extremely interesting part of the JFK story. We are still feeling the affects of a US president's murder today. It would be a worthy topic for a brave filmmaker, to tell the bigger story, the whole story. Until then I guess we'll keep being fed shows like this, where a 'lone gunman' or 'the mafia' killed our president.

Kinnear was great though. You could tell this was an important role for him.

I hadn't heard anything about this show when I hit play on the first episode. I wasn't really paying full attention at the start, but gradually, through solid dialogue and weirdness, I got pulled into the mystery. I had no issues with the pacing...its a mystery, so you have to wait until the end for the reveal. There were lots of strange events and interesting questions. The 'world' built by the script was very detailed and realistic and I thought more than once that this was pulled from someone's personal experiences. I watch a lot of terrible tv shows and it's pretty great when a show I've never heard of turns out to be really good.

If you haven't seen the entire thing, don't read the next paragraph.

I will say, I bet the makers of this show cringed a little when they saw the movie hereditary. I'm sure they were in the middle of fine tuning this script or actually on set making this show when that movie came out. Personally, I enjoyed both.