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RogerEbert.comMar 4, 2020
Season 1 Review:
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.
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The PlaylistOct 5, 2020
Season 1 Review:
It’s an engrossing series, using Garland’s trademark affinities for blending cerebral cautionary tales with emotional beliefs about empathy and, in this case, the intellectually flawed designs behind trying to play god. Yet, “Devs” isn’t at all rarefied, challenging brain texture—though it’s there if you want to engage with it—and functions as a captivating thriller with the hint of both sinister menace and mysterious unknowingness.
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Mar 3, 2020
Season 1 Review:
It’s a deep dive into the twilight zone and at times I had to work hard to keep a grip on certain plot machinations — but Garland has a keen sense of timing when it comes to providing the answers to nagging questions just as we’re getting close to the point of frustration. By the time the finale wraps up, no major mysteries remain.
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Mar 5, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Whether Devs feels like a revelatory piece of intellectual science fiction or another droning, navel-gazing prestige drama is in the eye of the beholder. But for those who can get past the slow pace, some dodgy Russian accents (sorry, Brian d’Arcy James, but you know it’s true) and the occasional forays into House of Cards-level psychodrama, Garland’s latest feels like the kind of thought-provoking science fiction that no longer has a home at the cineplex.
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Mar 5, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Plugging into "Devs" requires acceptance or at least tolerance of the overriding chill in its look and some performances. ... This is the aspect of "Devs" that went farthest in earning my appreciation, its ability to dole out shocks that I didn't see coming, which gets tougher to do with the more TV shows a person watches, and the assuredness with which it milks the utmost tension out of developments we're meant to see coming.
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Mar 4, 2020
Mar 4, 2020
Season 1 Review:
There are moments throughout Devs that left me frustrated with how similarly hollow they felt, and I’m not sure the ending entirely lands. Yet the way that Garland and his collaborators composed and arranged the pictures on the screen left me entranced throughout. I’m still not sure I know what the point of the Devs project is, but I loved watching Devs unfold.
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Mar 3, 2020
Season 1 Review:
These are heady, brain-warping ideas. And it is to Garland’s credit that he has the courage to confront them head-on, resorting to neither the gratuitously gamified narrative of Westworld or Black Mirror’s sensationalism. As a result, Devs is able to balance challenging concepts with clear storytelling.
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TV Guide MagazineMar 2, 2020
Season 1 Review:
The collision of visionary science and tormented humanity with a jaundiced eye, and, ultimately, a life-affirming heart. [2 - 15 Mar 2020, p.8]
Feb 25, 2020
Season 1 Review:
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.
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Feb 18, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Fans of Ex Machina and Annihilation will easily recognize the landscapes and tenor of FX's Devs as Alex Garland's creation without his name even scrolling across the screen. The show exists in the same state of elegant modernity as his movies, and the mystery-building is just as intense, if unhurried.
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Mar 2, 2020
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The first nine minutes of the pilot did more to hook me than months of FX’s aggressively cryptic ad campaign ever could. ... Devs sets you up to believe that it’s going to be some kind of chilly, Black Mirror-esque dreadfest, but the show starts undermining that idea almost immediately by infusing scenes with small and unexpected touches of emotion. [Kristen Baldwin: A-]
It’s a frustrating missed opportunity. I’d be more convinced by all the predestination soliloquies if the plot didn’t feel tram-lined through so many clichés and phony notes of unearned catharsis. Of course the characters don’t have free will. That would require imagination, something Devs can only simulate. [Darren Franich: C]
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