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Devs
Season 1 Premiere: Mar 5, 2020
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7.3
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 32 Critic Reviews
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69% Positive
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25% Mixed
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6% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 32 Critic Reviews
71
69% Positive
22 Reviews
22 Reviews
25% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
6% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
The stunningly ambitious “Devs,” a great show that’s almost impossible to write about in a review. ... It’s ultimately an unforgettable and rewarding experience, and one that I really hope people are talking about and writing about once everything has been put on the table. ... One of the best new shows in a long time.
Devs is a very intellectually heavy piece, and one which Garland has done a fantastic job of breaking down into true episodes.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 142 User Ratings
7.3
73% Positive
103 Ratings
103 Ratings
13% Mixed
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19 Ratings
14% Negative
20 Ratings
20 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 142 User Ratings
7.3
73% Positive
103 Ratings
103 Ratings
13% Mixed
19 Ratings
19 Ratings
14% Negative
20 Ratings
20 Ratings
Best part is the photography, it's gorgeous in every frame. production values are top notch-editing, sound, acting, sets all are perfect. Nick Offerman is the best actor and carries the show, I don't know how he does it with such a monotone. I read he is a carpenter, like Harrison Ford, who he reminds me of in ways. Alex Garland always does an excellent job.
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There were some moments watching Devs—so intense and saturated—when I began to wonder if maybe a little bit of Garland goes a long way. For the most part, though, it proves a strange, somber pleasure to wander the corridors of his mind for such a long time.
It's haunting and hypnotic, a show of marrow-seeping mood and a unity of vision that carries through every frame. If it also turns a corner from entrancingly opaque to a bit on-the-nose by the end, for fans of Garland's Ex Machina and Annihilation, chances are that you'll be too absorbed to be bothered.
Garland hasn’t overlooked a thing in constructing the setting of his techno thriller. It’s the story within it that struggles to be cohesive and compelling.
At first, Devs’s straightforward murder mystery and broader philosophical questions dovetail seamlessly. ... Devs frustratingly comes too sharply into focus at the expense of leaving some of its more evocative ideas unsaid. The story’s metaphors become increasingly obvious.
Bad television that’s striving to be great, that’s got ideas and style but sinks under the weight of its own oversize ambition—a sheep with a 50-pound weight tied to its forelegs and dropped in a river. ... Except in Devs, multiple versions of the same sheep inhabit multiple realities. It sinks like a stone in every single one.
This is compulsively watchable television for me. Love every performance, especially Nick Offerman & Zach Grenier. Sonoya Mizuno is perfectly understated, Jin Ha is another great rooting interest. Sure, it's a little self-consciously cerebral, but at least it's about something genuinely challenging -- the reality of a deterministic universe -- and that's a welcome step up from most shows that wouldn't even attempt to explore such a thought-provoking theme. Five episodes in, can't wait to see how it ends.
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I feel like the series didn't quite know what it was. The elements of crime / conspiracy thriller really worked for me. However the Sci-Fi / metaphysical aspects didn't quite convince me. Nevertheless the production is flawless, the acting very good and the effects very well done
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I am afraid Mizuna cannot carry her role. The artifice shows through. The music is distracting instead of complimenting. While the show attempts to be deep and intriguing it shows only a shallow nod to both physics and philosophy.
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Production Company:
- DNA Films
- FX Productions
- Scott Rudin Productions
Initial Release Date: Mar 5, 2020
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-MA
Awards
Primetime Emmy Awards
• 4 Nominations
Online Film & Television Association
• 3 Nominations
Bafta TV Craft
• 2 Nominations
