User Reviews

So they claim that even the most chaotic events, like a river flow or a fire burning, can be calculated. Yet they can't get their sfx right and need to copy / paste flames?

Overall a good show, but with flaws. It's our current society dream that our technology is bigger than it really is. If it was in a distant future it could be more plausible. But for now we still get 95% of our energy from fossil fuels and our societies are being put on their knees by a stupid virus. For the foreseeable future, the most powerful computer, quantum or not, will be nothing more than a toaster compared to the complexity of the ecosystem, or just of our brain.

But I'm a sf lover, the sets are gorgeous, and some good thoughts about quantum theory, so I did enjoy most of it.

The ending is much more satisfying when you realize that it's simulations all the way down (the main story is a simulation within a simulation, ad nauseam, ad infinitum). They allude to it often and explicitly state it in the penultimate episode. That probably has more truth than fiction to it, too.

This was still a good episode. However, it makes ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE that Katie and Forest could talk to each other at the end of the episode, when Forest is part of the simulation (and obviously Katie is not part of the simulation). This episode still had a lot of great moments...

Deus Ex Machina

Just goosebumps all over my body.

Just genius.

Overall I loved the show, beautiful cinematography and soundtrack, fine acting, great premise. Was hoping for the best ending in years...guess not.

The ending is not logical in itself (free will does not change the outcome), major questions (why does one single choice lead to a breakdown in the prediction algorithm? Free will only matters in this one situation?) remain unanswered and the afterlife simulation is literally a "deus ex machina" situation. And how is the algorithm suddenly a programmable virtual reality?

Really fascinating show but the finale does not live up to what the previous 7 episodes have been setting up.

It's a short show, so it doesn't hurt as much as with other shows, but this ending was really extraordinarily unsatisfying. Really I feel like it didn't even make any sense.

Firstly, it was very, very predictable that Lily would chose not to do what the simulation predicted her to do, and therefore this when she throws the gun out moment felt really superficial. But if we follow the logic of the show, Forest and Katie both knew that what was shown in the simulation might not actually happen because after the machine was changed to follow Lyndon's principle it would only be able to show A VERSION of the past/future, not THE definitive version. I'm not sure why they completely ignored that entire thing, because in the end that entire subplot with Lyndon didn't really amount to anything and they could've started at a finished many-worlds system and it wouldn't have made much of a difference.

I'm also unsure as to why the prediction ended at the moment of Lily's death, and not when she made her choice or why it even changed at all, because again, following the many-world theory anything that can happen, will happen, so obviously Lily making that choice was just another possibility and the machine shouldn't have any problems predicting oast that point, it made no sense.

Lastly, the possibility of "inserting" a person into the simulation came completely out of left field and wasn't previously hinted at in any way. I can see how this would work if the machine focused on a specific version of the world, but they also made it look like the machine was running a many-worlds simulation, which doesn't really make sense both from a technical point of view as well as story point of view. They go out of their way to tell us that many-worlds exist, so why would they want to be in the simulation? They are aware that within these many worlds there exists a version where they live their happiest lives, so what's the point of "resurrection"?

Overall a very lacklustre finale that leaves more questions open than it answers. The show up until this episode was pretty good, but now I'd give it a solid 7/10 overall.