Watch this show, it is so very important to our world today.
It's a warning shot to all of us, that the planet is in dire danger unless we change course on the food we eat so very much of. As a consequence, we may very well kill not only ourselves, but all humankind on the planet due to global warming disasters as a result of the greenhouse gasses these meat-farms produce, as well as the ever-more dangerous health hazards they present.
The fix for this starts when we decide now to eat less meat At least less. We must reduce societal demand to buy these meats, to make less animals farmed, to reduce the acceleration of produced greenhouse gasses, to therefore help avert a preventable planet-wide catastrophe.
If that wasn't enough, making this change is also self-beneficial, as reducing meat consumption also improves ones health and wellbeing. This show collects and provides all the scientific statistics to show how multiple types of Fat on your body can be trimmed, while increasing your muscle mass, without eating as much (or any) meat. The conclusion reached at the end is that we can do it, and we must do it, for ourselves :person_tipping_hand: for each other :people_wrestling: and for the whole planet :earth_africa:
The first 5 episodes are very strong with sci-fi themes. The last 3 episodes are weak watered-down relationship tropes that honestly the show did not need whatsoever.
Why hook your sci-fi lovers with sci-fi content, then push them away at the end? Did Netflix think that by adding some emotional writing at the end would hook the non-sci-fi lovers? I don't think it serves either type of person. Just leave it out.
With that said, I can appreciate some of the emotional content that was peppered in the first few episodes; It kept the show grounded. But anything more than that was unnecessary.
I still liked it, but I hope season two will trim the fat and deliver mostly sci-fi. It's a very compelling story!
My wife and I watched this show after watching Ripley by the same director, and we were floored by how good it was! Zaillian is masterful in his craft, and I am so excited to see what else he does next.
I want to like this show so much... But it is such a slog. I have no trouble keeping up with other sci-fi and mind benders, but this one just feels either unnecessarily complicated, or does a poor job at conveying what the viewer is supposed to know contextually.
And it moves too fast. I never feel the weight of things that happen. I'm regularly pausing it to ensure I have time to process something that feels like a bombshell (but maybe it wasn't after all).
I quite enjoy some aspects of the show, and sometimes it all comes together nicely. But, then it scatters again, and I just never feel like it's cohesive enough to recommend others watch it.
