shallowness

Near-future setting, but then, the clever ads for this show, purporting to be ads for synths, jostled with that annoying Cortana ad (your mobile phone as PA!) which also popped up on my laptop last night. ( Read more... )

Overall, it’s quite good. Not flawless, I don’t think all of the answers to the mysteries it poses were or are ever going to hold up to the intrigue, but it feels very pertinent and ambitious enough – that is, I feel the scope is well-judged so far. I think it did a good job of making us sympathetic to various characters, the acting is good - the synths are unnervingly convincing. And yay to British sci-fi on the telly.