Midway through the fourth episode, I'm trying hard to hang on because it's so, so boring.

The series is built upon one simple central idea, but it's actually sparsely featured over the running time. The rest is filler.

More mortal sins impair Devs:

The casting is just terrible. Offerman is very good, the others are bad, the lead girl is just laughable as an actress.

The script is uninteresting and amateurish. Everything seems mechanical, even the twists. The dialogues are often ridiculous and stunningly flat or expositive. Sometimes you have a feeling the lines are written by a kid who's so much proud of his work.

The direction is very millennial-style, along the lines of "let's put a pan here, that's so artistic!... let's have poetic moments of silence, that's crazy! yeah right!"

The worst thing is the pretentiousness that radiates from every single aspect of this production. Direction, script, scenographies, acting, editing, awful artsish music and artsish cinematography (you'll notice some terrible backlightings that strive for atmosphere, but they're just plainly bad lit). Add that badly drawn surreal setting with those characters inside the Devs, and it's clear someone wants to be an artist. It just seems Garland aims for a masterpiece of something, but he's light years away from understanding the tools. So it ends up being irritating, and I mean very irritating.