After 40 years of neoliberalism yet another psychotic billionaire trying to play God and in the process murdering people? This has so many echoes with scenarios we are seeing in the papers almost every day in the last few years; folks basically outside of all legal framework; able to dictate to their workers to government to the police; Essentially people who have gathered so much money that their personal madness is able to exist with no brakes whatsoever...

The entire piece the entire effort steeped in a scientific or rather pseudo-scientific pseudo-philosophical bath which really belongs more to the late 1800s early 1900s than it does to the 21st-century; some half-baked concept centred around quantum physics something which was first mooted over 100 years ago now trying to make this sound like it is cutting-edge coupled with a worshipful adoring cult of code-writing as if it were a born-again form of asceticism. Also much bleating on about determinism a highly irritating concept especially the way it is handled here ... and also counter to truly modern physics

It is not all bad at all; some very decent acting in there but frankly another piece of science is so wonderful that it will fix anything and everything and even reverse death through computers and code writing; concepts so ridiculous and farcical that they would make you laugh if there was any humour at all in this Piece

But truly there is not

not a titter at any point in this; also manages to weave into this Opus some anti-Russian elements and brutality against Oriental people something That since Vietnam and Korea we expect from the Coca-Cola empire plenty of this here ....

Quite a few times certainly in the first two or three episodes did I get close to throwing this in the bin; but something kept me going the narrative at times draw you in at other times becomes so paper- thin and ludicrous bailing out of it seemed the correct course of action.

This was filmed and conceived by the writer of the 2000 film ; a writer who produced three novels and then decided to be a Hollywood script writer and eventually film director

Even in the beach the final scenes were involved with computers at a time when this was really novel; the themes of utopia were also present in the beach then there was a novel called the Tesseract which was also laced with quite a bit of science personally I had lost Track with the writer since then and it is interesting to see that most of the themes which inhabited this writer remain intact 20 years later.

The actor playing the part of the psychotic billionaire has the face and eyes of a looting Viking

The main actress is a Japanese-Argentine British dancer from Somerset who does a pretty good job of appearing to be a Silicon Valley keyboard monkey; many here in the comments slag off her style of acting; too unemotive they say; well dudes and dudettes she is playing a grieving Chinese programmer for crying outloud: which part of this would you expect to trigger a Mediterranean hand-waving excitable performance; it seems to me what she displays here is EXACTLY what is required; totally in character

Then there is a Korean-born American actor who plays the part of her jilted boyfriend possibly reactivated later on all of these do a very decent job

The question is should you watch this? I would say why not. Is it good very good average? It is all of these things at different times the quality of the entire thing wavers Quite a lot in my view But since it is yet again another piece warning us of the danger of letting individuals amass immense wealth and then dictate to the world to governments to us all ultimately how to live how to think it is a useful work... I would advise people to give it a whirl.