Devs2020

It’s an engrossing series, using Garland’s trademark affinities for blending cerebral cautionary tales with emotional beliefs about empathy and, in this case, the intellectually flawed designs behind trying to play god. Yet, “Devs” isn’t at all rarefied, challenging brain texture—though it’s there if you want to engage with it—and functions as a captivating thriller with the hint of both sinister menace and mysterious unknowingness.

Devs is certainly an unusual series. In general, you don't expect anything else from Alexander Garland. This is how his projects attract their attention. But Devs starts as a very interesting Sci-Fi with a philosophical subtext, and immediately fascinates. And it ends with the fact that you, as a viewer who came here for Sci-Fi, is betrayed. The last 8th episode completely destroys all the logic. As if they wanted to squeeze the viewer with the idea of determinism, and then suddenly throw a philosophical melodrama into the final. That's the difference between Devs and Dark. Devs merges and falls apart because of such a finale as an integral work, and Dark goes to the end into a solid Sci-Fi and gives the best and most thoughtful finale in Sci-Fi series. The first 4 episodes are top, but then less and less logic and consistency and more and more chatter and philosophical subtext. As a result, it turns out that Devs almost perfectly asks the main question, what torments a person. But I'm afraid to give him an honest answer.

This page-turner of a miniseries may not be predicting our future, but it sure leaves you wondering if somewhere inside a Big Tech compound there's a roomful of coders working on it.