Season 1

It's like an engrossing long form black mirror episode with all the good connotations that brings. The premise is simple enough and even if it does have a rough time coming across at first eventually things come together comprehensively. It does feature one of my favorite English TV archetypes: The Unfavored Son. It's a hilarious archetype. The concept is the family has two sons. One of which is practically the prototypical prodigal son. He has issues with his family they don't approve of what he does or whatever. The other son will do anything for his parent's approval. They take up the family job, they marry the "right" one whatever. But the parents always get emotional over the prodigal son and never the Unfavored Son. And WOW do we have an Unfavored Son here. He makes a LOT of bad decisions and they hurt people around him, him, and people he's trying to help. There's a few heel-face turns and a few face-heel turns but just WOW what a character (he said chuckling to himself).

Aside from THE character we have a few steady storylines and plots to play with from Danny the young man who is part of a generation who are addicted to the feed and whose brains can't function without it. (Which would seem to make a VERY good case for Feed limitation all on it's own but whatever). And that's about it. The rest of the stories are more directly related to to the Hatfield family (The first family of The Feed) and a new menace that threatens everything that Hatfields have built and potentially the people who use it.

The pacing is pretty good there's a few moments of cheese like when a character gets knocked out in multiple episodes but you realize the series of episodes all take place in the same day so he's functionally taking 3-4 knock out blows in the same day. Sometimes characters switch sides a little too frequently. But even with the binge there's more here than not. It's a nice cohesive sci-fi story about a type of social media technology gone amuck.