Review of Devs

Devs (2020)
4/10
Yes, I get it but I don't really want to watch a story that could have been written 30 years ago
29 March 2020
I found this interesting and disappointing by turns throughout all 5 episodes so far. Episode 5 does do some interesting reviewing/editorialising with the 'story so far' but even this is rather cheesy and off - if visually interesting with some necessary box ticking character build-out and plot gap filler patching. I tended to get the feeling that this production, whilst it initially feels of good quality in individual and even some cohering aspects, will date quite badly so as to appear anachronistic and cultish in future. A page turning melodrama made for a streaming service on weekly episode release isn't surprising but then perhaps neither is the slew of overly positive reviews popping up on here to 'balance out the negatives' gushing things such as "I was hooked immediately" or "it's the perfect balance of x, y & z" Sometimes a well-recorded and expertly mixed record just points out how poorly written the song was.

NB whether a post-production versioning error or wanton obliqueness, the scenes with father & daughter playing Go together were not subtitled from their mother tongue.
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