I'll admit to being a reluctant SciFi viewer. SciFi bugs me.... because anything goes if needed to force plots into a certain direction. Having said that, there are of course some terrific ones, Planet of the Apes (the original one) I found rather intriguing, 2001 I saw as a 13-year old, and many horror movies I found belonged to that genre...

The sad part about this series, in my books, is that it takes a lot of great photography, a fundamentally good idea, but plugs a banal story into it while trying consistently to hide it behind terribly hip, cool, "intelligent" quotes, long silences disguising the absence of anything really coherent... and then splatters the viewer with quantum physics clichés.... I have an allergy to that.... Actors visibly repeating their lines, contradictions, like a new Lily lover telling her she's funny.... when barely cracks a smile throughout the whole series ... The heavily-bearded Offermann is also typecast as a kind of latter-day hippy (do I recognize a bit of Jaron Lanier, here?) spouting what Colbert would call truthiness, I gather.

The characters are far too one-dimensional, and spare me the "is-she-Finnish? Blond baddy" who seems to have Forest's attention, and you realize, she has his sex drive, and the androgynous Lily and her Samurai who's courage shrivels at the first sign of violence... It reeks of Berkeley's pseudo-intellectualism and political wokeness before its time... I could somehow accept a lot (it's a series made for the budding thinker crowd of the early 21st century, pretending too be deep and intellectual* (watch out spoiler footnote), but the scene in the lecture hall with the "dwarf/deformed intellectual old sexless lady "debating à la Hollywood" (you'll see what I mean) is what made my view tip to the 3 stars... Pull off the veil of long silences, strange phenomena, weird lighting... this was just another crime thriller. And it evolves that way. Here's the deal: A good sci-fi film has to be 60 % believable. This one is not.

* The premise of this movie is simple, that given powerful enough computing and enough data, you can predict anything, and what has happened can be restored... It's an idea that even I thought up years ago (while writing a storyline).