Omniscient (2020)
8/10
Worth watching sci-fi
24 September 2020
Calling this sci-fi is an understatement. If u take away all the impossible elements like hacking complex systems in a blink of an eye, then the pictured world becomes pretty realistic (considering only technical difficulties, not the political ones).

There is rapid action mixed with mild mystery but also friendship, family, loss, hard choices and a lot more. All of this carried by constantly developing main character.

I've noticed that many reviews are criticizing technical aspects, so I would like to respond to that...

"They don't even have AR glasses or even electric bikes" - AR is a trend. It might be developed further in the future but it does not have to be. Huge part of what AR offers can be and is currently displayed on screen so why bother? About electric bikes... The way I see it bikes were showed as an alternative method of transportation, the healthy one. So I don't really see the problem here.

"The drones aren't even 360 degrees view" - The drones are very little though. Furthermore, their task is to watch one person, not everything around that person.

"the so called star programmer was only typing with only 2 fingers" - I have not noticed it but I really tried not to look after I saw some of the hacking stuff. Typing / hacking moments were way off. However, "normal people" probably would not have noticed that.

In general low budget (or not spending much money on tweaking every technical aspect) does not severely affect the show.
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