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Apple Originals have been pretty good with the scifi. I found Silo, For All Mankind, Monarch, Severance, Hello Tomorrow and See to be some of the best scifi bei

Apple Originals have been pretty good with the scifi. I found Silo, For All Mankind, Monarch, Severance, Hello Tomorrow and See to be some of the best scifi being produced. So I feel like this might be in good hands. I also personally enjoy Foundation, but I know that take is a bit more controversial.

Apocryphon 3y ago
Check out Extrapolations, even if it's talky and at times preachy.
- joshka 3y ago
  The problem with Extrapolations is that it's really a watch a single time series. Despite how good it was, I don't think I could sit through that twice.
Cyberdog 3y ago
I wonder why Apple seems to be having far better luck with consistent quality than Netflix, who just laid another egg with their Avatar: The Last Airbender adaptation. You'd think Netflix would have better connections and much more experience given their longer history and dominant status in the field. What is Apple doing that Netflix isn't?
- jkestner 3y ago
  Maybe giving the creators more rein and budget, because they’re a cash-rich underdog. Netflix isn’t that now.
- ceejayoz 3y ago
  Apple doesn't as desperately need a big stable of first-party content. They've other revenue streams, they're not losing a bunch of third-party content, and I suspect most of their subs come in via Apple One (Apple Music, iCloud, etc.) package deals rather than direct.
- smugma 3y ago
  The Avatar creators got so frustrated with Netflix they left a year or two ago. I think Apple gives a lot more free rein to its creators. For the Dr. Dre biopic they let it be made and then shelved it. Another notable exception was they allegedly wouldn’t let Jon Stewart talk about China.
Vicinity9635 3y ago
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- snakeyjake 3y ago
  Is "woke" code for "there is a minority in the show"?
  - Vicinity9635 3y ago
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altruios 3y ago
Silo was far too predictable and slow for my taste. Ending in full was predicted correctly in episode 2 (which was a bit infuriating that that's all it was culminating towards)... The acting was good, the cinematography and sets, and costumes too: but not worth the watch, as it says nothing original, new, or interesting. It falls into 'content' for me, something rehashed to make money first and tell a story second. To each their own. It was based on a book... and that kind of ending (the finickiness of details) works far better in a literary setting, in a film the connections seem arbitrary and ad hoc.
themadturk 3y ago
Haven't seen all of Silo yet, but it seems pretty good. Monarch needed more kaiju, but I enjoyed it anyway.

Apocryphon 3y ago

Check out Extrapolations, even if it's talky and at times preachy.

joshka 3y ago
The problem with Extrapolations is that it's really a watch a single time series. Despite how good it was, I don't think I could sit through that twice.

Cyberdog 3y ago

I wonder why Apple seems to be having far better luck with consistent quality than Netflix, who just laid another egg with their Avatar: The Last Airbender adaptation. You'd think Netflix would have better connections and much more experience given their longer history and dominant status in the field. What is Apple doing that Netflix isn't?

jkestner 3y ago
Maybe giving the creators more rein and budget, because they’re a cash-rich underdog. Netflix isn’t that now.
ceejayoz 3y ago
Apple doesn't as desperately need a big stable of first-party content. They've other revenue streams, they're not losing a bunch of third-party content, and I suspect most of their subs come in via Apple One (Apple Music, iCloud, etc.) package deals rather than direct.
smugma 3y ago
The Avatar creators got so frustrated with Netflix they left a year or two ago. I think Apple gives a lot more free rein to its creators. For the Dr. Dre biopic they let it be made and then shelved it. Another notable exception was they allegedly wouldn’t let Jon Stewart talk about China.

Vicinity9635 3y ago

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snakeyjake 3y ago
Is "woke" code for "there is a minority in the show"?
- Vicinity9635 3y ago
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altruios 3y ago

Silo was far too predictable and slow for my taste. Ending in full was predicted correctly in episode 2 (which was a bit infuriating that that's all it was culminating towards)... The acting was good, the cinematography and sets, and costumes too: but not worth the watch, as it says nothing original, new, or interesting. It falls into 'content' for me, something rehashed to make money first and tell a story second. To each their own. It was based on a book... and that kind of ending (the finickiness of details) works far better in a literary setting, in a film the connections seem arbitrary and ad hoc.

themadturk 3y ago

Haven't seen all of Silo yet, but it seems pretty good. Monarch needed more kaiju, but I enjoyed it anyway.