The good first, yes Garland has a talent, Hardy is a brilliant cinematographer, and Digby is sound as is the whole of the art department. Offerman and Pill are excellent as you would expect, than it just cascades to very average at best. The lead actor is very very poor, she wasn't much better in her previous outings put as a lead, woefully out of her depth. This is probably down more to Garland's direction and odd choices for lead characters, all previously have been oddities, in this case a woman looking more like a man and even one character being played by a woman but playing a male role somewhat like Peter Pan on stage. In fact all his female characters are never likeable in the films he has directed, especially this one. Garland's biggest problem is that he always tries to make a work of art rather than something with substance, yes it does look amazing in many places but it drags slowly deliberately in many places so you get your money's worth, however the plot obviously drags with it. The other annoying matter and probably the one that will grate with others most is the soundtrack and score, silly noises, choral chanting, a deranged oboe here and there. It's almost as if the sound department have thought well if Garland's at it then we'll make an opus also. At times the score just overtakes what you are watching and you reach to mute straightaway, sometimes with expletives. Finally the story, well it is nothing new at all, including the ending, heartache with hope, choice over reason, god, no god, multiverse or part of a computer program. All in all it's something that needs to be watched to see how a sci-fi series can fall apart by someone believing their own press, if making a film or series firstly your story must be the highlight, this is not the case, this is just a few truly beautiful scenes filling a very dull script, an hour and a half film would have been better. If you make it to episode 7, have the remote close by at the start, christ what were they thinking.