Medical breakthroughs have rendered most of the population an ageless kind of immortality. Most people stop aging around 30. The first generation of immortals, now 120+, are getting pretty bored. The age of majority has been raised to 30, and teenagers have become so far removed from the rest of society that they're joining radical extremists.
The world created in this series is a bit odd. It seems set in modern day Earth, but they talk about futuristic medical advancements that happened 100+ years ago. No attempt is made to explain this. How hard would it have been to give us some kind of hand-wavey explanation?
Besides how distractingly non-futuristic this looks, it's also confusing as to why people would forget about death. Special death counselors have to explain the concept of death to families. And yet these people are driving the same unsafe cars as us? How is this possible? How are these people not dying in the same car accidents that cause millions of deaths for us?
You have turn off your brain to enjoy a show like this, and yet it has all these pretentious scenes where the writers clearly think they have something profound to say about the human condition. The pretentious scenes do mostly work, though. The actors are good, and the writers seem pretty competent when they're not being lazy.
As long as your expectations aren't too high, this show can work for you. It's interesting, and it has a good cast. After watching this show, I can't really think of a better choice to play a 120-year-old police detective. I do wish the show were less lazy about addressing plot holes and had a better budget, but just having Yvan Attal in the cast goes pretty far.
The world created in this series is a bit odd. It seems set in modern day Earth, but they talk about futuristic medical advancements that happened 100+ years ago. No attempt is made to explain this. How hard would it have been to give us some kind of hand-wavey explanation?
Besides how distractingly non-futuristic this looks, it's also confusing as to why people would forget about death. Special death counselors have to explain the concept of death to families. And yet these people are driving the same unsafe cars as us? How is this possible? How are these people not dying in the same car accidents that cause millions of deaths for us?
You have turn off your brain to enjoy a show like this, and yet it has all these pretentious scenes where the writers clearly think they have something profound to say about the human condition. The pretentious scenes do mostly work, though. The actors are good, and the writers seem pretty competent when they're not being lazy.
As long as your expectations aren't too high, this show can work for you. It's interesting, and it has a good cast. After watching this show, I can't really think of a better choice to play a 120-year-old police detective. I do wish the show were less lazy about addressing plot holes and had a better budget, but just having Yvan Attal in the cast goes pretty far.