A decent start, I was initially slightly worried the writers were about to completely pervert the entire point of the story, with contemporary revisionist ideas and the insistence on class/race struggle.
Which has nothing to do with the terrifying propositions laid out in Huxley's highly entertaining original.
Most of my apprehensions were put aside after episode 2 and I was looking forward to seeing how they flesh out the rest of the world, and how the story would unfold compared to the book or the 90's TV Movie.
Sadly, by episode 5, like so many other open ended series when they become franchised... The plot is suddenly spread so thin, you can see through it. The majority of the runtime quickly moved into terrible 'CW' style emotional conversations in corridors. And all the currently unavoidable political insertion begins to take over. Another great shame.
Even with these insulting shoehorned ideas, these shows need to be given a clear start to finish period so they stop trying to drag a simple story so slowly, they kill the momentum and go wildly off track, yet keep making mediocre episodes that just fizzle and die.
This is the last episode I will be watching.
If you enjoy softly swelling music behind emotional conversations about feelings, maybe you will make it to the end.
Most of my apprehensions were put aside after episode 2 and I was looking forward to seeing how they flesh out the rest of the world, and how the story would unfold compared to the book or the 90's TV Movie.
Sadly, by episode 5, like so many other open ended series when they become franchised... The plot is suddenly spread so thin, you can see through it. The majority of the runtime quickly moved into terrible 'CW' style emotional conversations in corridors. And all the currently unavoidable political insertion begins to take over. Another great shame.
Even with these insulting shoehorned ideas, these shows need to be given a clear start to finish period so they stop trying to drag a simple story so slowly, they kill the momentum and go wildly off track, yet keep making mediocre episodes that just fizzle and die.
This is the last episode I will be watching.
If you enjoy softly swelling music behind emotional conversations about feelings, maybe you will make it to the end.
