User Reviews

How dumb can you be? First off Kate becomes a terrorist out of nowhere. Then she lets a little girl become an axe murderer with every chance to run. Then hits her with a car, waits for her to get up and stab her, then takes a nap in the woods a mile away while leaving her baby with said psychopath in the car. That drove me nuts. Also Ben was such a loser. I liked it a lot until that stuff in episode 9 went down.

The building sense of horror in "The Feed" grows right out of its "20 minutes into the future" science fiction genre. Other than the whine of electric cars & a few additions to the cityscape, the backdrop is essentially the present (paper & handwriting are still things, to give a small example). The Feed itself flows out of our own push for connectivity & expedience. It just makes sense. Communications, data retrieval, AR, VR, people looking of into the distance as they surf, even Feed addicts, who suffer dangerous DT's if disconnected; traits recognizable, if not quite literal, to our world (yet).

The production itself is solid. The characters are developed over a period of time, which is one of the best things about a series versus a film. None of them, however, seems completely sympathetic. It's a short story, stretched over 10 episodes, instead of, say, five; so we get a lot of similar and prolonged reaction shots, running around pointlessly, reminiscent of classic Doctor Who, and a grim soundtrack that seems to get stuck occasionally. A good deal of the action involves characters needlessly splitting up, or leaving obvious knots untied, and returning to find themselves in the exact same danger as they left. At one point, a major character even says, "This time, we stay together," which seems more ironic than the writers may have intended.

And yes, as critics were reporting before it was dropped, "The Feed" is a close cousin of other modern shows in the "Twilight Zone" tradition: "Black Mirror," "Philip K Dick's Electronic Dreams," etc. There's plenty of room for more. (And I personally, as an American, enjoy Britain featured at the center of crises, tech inclusive; my country has become its own parody, especially in film.)

There is a specific art to telling a short story; sometimes the standard 10-12 episodes is just too much time.

Come on. We know it's coming. Take a step back and think about technology and the movies/series with futuristic technology. Here are some:

"Back to the Future II". Famous for the "Power Lace" Nike's and hover boards. Think deeper though...........Flying cars? Well, maybe not the way people were thinking about it, but we already have them. We have 1 - 4 seat drones. Look it up, they are already here, just not in the way Hollywood thought about it. Hoverboards, those too. Look them up. They get closer and closer every year. I think Lexus' team built one that is getting very close. Power Laces? Nike actually made them and they work. Self drying and adjusting jacket? Well....not quite yet.

In "Ready Player One" and many Japanese Anime's, Sword Art Online, there is this notion of deep diving into a Virtual World where you can actually Feel, Taste, Smell. Heads up views of your computers. The funny thing is, most of this stuff is well on it's way. There are companies that are manufacturing "Bio-chips" as we speak. They are powered by your body heat. There are "Contacts" that would be run on Body Heat and would put in an Augmented Reality(AR) view of the real world. We already know we can implant a tiny speaker behind the earlobe that would send sound through your ear canal to your ear drum. Wearables are a big deal, but with the contacts coming, we could be online 24/7/365. It's going to happen. We already know that "Self Driving" cars are actually here now. Soon you will just order and Uber or Google car and they will all run by computer.

This story goes a step beyond and is more like "Sword Art Online" as a version of immersive deep diving that is talking to your brain. I don't think the "implant" was explained well enough, but I can see where they were going.

I gave it a 6 because I felt it moved too slow, the story was nothing new or original and they didn't explain some things and just didn't give enough information to answer "Why" in a lot of areas. It kind of felt like they "half-assed" the story telling and some details. You don't want to feel like you just skimmed over the overview of a story.

If you like sci-fi, or are a technologies that knows stuff is coming that we probably shouldn't invent, it is worth your time. I'm a CTO and this is "scary" to me because I know just how close we are to this type of technology. It freaks me out sometimes because you know that most intelligent people will be careful, but it only takes one smart idiot to send us to a place we can never recover from.

I like the Supernatural mixed with Technology storyline, but again, they didn't sell it enough.

The Feed takes quite a lot of elements from the premise of several Black Mirror episodes of trying to perfect a technological system that will on the surface vastly improve humanity's quality of life such as social media, information, health monitoring, communication all controlled with your mind, and then attempts to outline the dangers such technology could have on society.

Generally, the show looks quite slick and can be quite inventive with its uses of 'The Feed'. The idea was right with where the story goes, but the problem is, it is so rushed that you have no time to explore or process any advancement in the story. By the time you get half way through the first season you've already moved from basic privacy invasion and glitching to full on murderous viruses and full on mind control, an arc that really should take several seasons to get to. Not to mention a Shakespearean storyline of the main family being so out of place with the general narrative.

If we were given the time to invest in the characters, this show would be a lot easier to digest