The original episodes are some of the greatest speculative fiction to make it on the TV during my lifetime.

The show was tragically later sold, and I consider season 3 and on to be a cheap reboot. Episode 5 of season 3 is outright plagiarism of the novel The 5th Wave, and much of the other content is derivative or completely lacking the meaningful technological commentary that defined the original series.

Fifteen Million Merits in particular has a lot to say about pop media and counterculture. It is peak irony that the same people who made that episode later sold their show.