Mizuno’s manner is both intense and detached, which may fit the stylized cool of the direction but doesn’t give a viewer much to attach to in the focal character. The liveliest role goes to Zach Grenier (“The Good Wife”) as Forest’s security chief and enforcer, who spikes all the “Devs” talk with action.Mostly, though, the talk in “Devs” is the action. | Rating: 3/4 | 0:29 Could the knowledge it unlocks empower humanity or enslave it? The sci-fi director Alex Garland constructs a tech thriller in his first series, which accents both his strengths and weaknesses.Forest (Nick Offerman) is a know-it-all. After his nematodal success, he is recruited by the company’s enigmatic, all-powerful founder and CEO Forrest (Nick Offerman, putting his enormous, ambiguous presence and capacity for stillness to terrifying rather than comedic use this time). Too many long looks at nothing which are supposed to indicate deep and meaningful thought but really just fill episode time.
Katie secretly uses the Devs system for her own goals.Lily and James go to see Forest in a mission to find answers. Written and directed by Alex Garland.Lily returns to work at Amaya and explains her suspicions to Jen and Anya.
The Good. Written and directed by Alex Garland.Lily enlists ex-boyfriend Jamie's help to investigate Sergei's disappearance.
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She begins to question what she really knew about Sergei. Jul 24, 2020
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Suspense thrillers by their nature can't be predestined - boredom can be.
For an ideas guy, Garland is an especially strong visual storyteller.
0:29 The offices are spooky-minimalist, and a colossal statue of a little girl bestrides the campus, her eyes glassy and piercing like a nightmare doll’s.The menace at Amaya is born of pain.
Feb 18, 2020 Forest is visited by Laine, a powerful senator asking questions about the Devs project. But Devs once again proves that the mastermind behind tech thrillers is just beginning with his roster. Air date: Apr 16, 2020
One minute you’re happily cracking the problem of how to predict nematode worm behaviour, the next minute you’re being whisked off to the ultra-secret lair of your billionaire employer’s quantum computing firm and being shown technological possibilities so destabilising to everything on which you and humanity depend for life and sanity that you have to rush to the nearest futuristically designed loo as all your organs rebel.
75% In our world, things might get a little messier, a little bleaker; but no less interesting, for better or worse.
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This show moves at a snails pace and gets nowhere. Sophomoric quantum physics mumbo-jumbo and ambient (with a "t") atmospherics rule here, (spoiler alert) predicated on a very flimsy sci-fi premise that less than ten software programmers could invent a visual time machine. Air date: Mar 12, 2020
Due to the sheer scale of this comment community, we are not able to give each post the same level of attention, but we have preserved this area in the interests of open debate. His films create twists and haunting alternative worlds from hard science and big-think, be it artificial intelligence in The eight-episode “Devs,” which begins Thursday on FX on Hulu, is Garland’s first television series, and he writes and directs it in full. (Less so in content. View All Videos (20)