Devs tries a to pack too much into its repitore. Its Messianic, its revelatory, its surreal, its spiritual but sadly what it also is, is shallow. It never dives deep enough into a well constructed idea or genre, to really amount to anything significant, let alone the lofty pretensions is aspires to.

This weakness starts to show quite openly in latter episodes, when the story starts to quickly unravel. The end result is a throughly unsatisfying conclusion, with plot holes so big, you could park a tank in them.

Its not helped either by what I can only decribe as an androgenous lead character. She's so neutral in every sense, its dehumanising. I found empathising with her almost impossible. Her flat, monotonal delivery did not help either, largely bereft of any genuine emotional range.

Whats left is a somewhat shallow proposition vaguely reminiscent of Swedish Arthouse, there's some Bergman influence certainly but there's also a dash of Arthur C Clarkes "2001 A Space Oddessy" on offer too.

On the upside the cinamatics are exceptional and the use of music inventive and lively.

Sadly, for me, what feels like a lack of a coherent story leaves you with a rather uninspiring tale, that tries to be clever but ends up being very average instead.

5/10.