This is How Movies Should Be Made

Stylish but barely mediocre overall

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

I think this show is absolutely OUTSTANDING. Hunger Games meets Cube. Okay, perhaps not completely original in theme, but nor is it a simple copy of anything else. Other reviewers have criticized the realism of the script and the acting, which I find really hard to get to grips with. I'm pretty demanding in those respects -- other Netflix series such as Sense8, the OA, and Stranger Things (2nd series) just did not cut it for me, not nearly. But I am close to the end of Series 2 of 3% and am still gripped (perhaps slightly less than the first series, but hey, it's still very good going). In particular, I think that the acting is first-rate. There are occasions in which the dialogue strays from what would be realistic (I cannot BEAR the kind of scripts where they are constantly trying to explain everything in a way that makes the dialogue unnatural), but those are few and far between IMO. Maybe some of the differences of opinion are down to language/cultural interpretation. I am a native English speaker but lived in Brazil for a while, so I'm watching it in the original language with Pt subtitles. Seems from other reviews that the English dubbing is awful. Subtitles must be the best choice, but inevitably you are going to lose something. I'll tell you one thing - Brazil must have moved on a lot since I lived there because I am beyond impressed at the standard of this series. Congratulations to the creators and the actors.

The plot is not a bad idea but not well executed. It is a very incoherent story line. It is suppose to show the human condition and how utopian societies are doomed to fail, but it is not very believable because the characters do not respond in normal human patterns but rather in very contrived manners to force the story along. I watched both seasons hoping it would pull together but overall disappointing. Watching it dubbed makes it even worse so I recommend subtitles if you want to risk watching it. There was enough pull to keep me watching but ultimately left me frustrated, and not because it was some cleverly put together brain twisting plot, but because the writers just did not seem to be able to bring their ideas together in a cohesive manner.

Didn't have much expectations and managed to watch all 2 seasons. Will start from the bad things/plot holes (many have been already mentioned) 0) Quality of production: Science and vision of the future (non-existent, though kudos for biological data storage), actors play (though I've enjoyed the looks), scenery is cheap, english dubs not very good, etc 1)Plot is really bad, some questions: a) what happened to the everything around that "inland" city? b) why did people stay in the city at all? They obviously have enough water and food to live, where does it come from? Why most of the people don't leave city and go e.g. farming? c) Process - what's the goal? One would think, especially after 2nd season, that the idea is to bring the best people to develop the "offshore" further. I'd imagine those would be some driven people with passion to creating things, helping others, working together on a common goal, etc. Looking at the Process - doesn't seem so. d) Process - why at age 20? Is it something special in Brazil (finishing high-school maybe)? As inland is missing basic education, it'd be a pure luck to get those people even to decent engineering level, let alone scientist making breakthroughs e) 'dumb violence' - on one side it's pretty peaceful movie, counting what's happening on the inland. Most of the weapons have disappeared (where?!). People have to steal some fertilizers delivered from offshore to build a bomb. (what happened to all the explosives in the world?!). Most of the people seem to leave poor but relatively safe life. And so on and so on. On the other side - a few episodes with blood everywhere. Probably authors tried to show the terror but it doesn't fit in general mood of the series d) Why "offshore" doesn't even try to develop inland? They have technology, medicine, etc. They can't go and build some manufacturing and production on the inland? Create schools, etc? No need to share resources of the island, but knowledge and technology - why not? Probably many more but those are the first that come to mind.Now to the "positive" things, as they seemed to me: 1) Interesting twist on religion (no offence to anybody). It seems most of the people believe in Process and their sole goal is either to pass it or give birth and bring up children that will pass it. That believe somehow blocks development in the inland. That's why so much revolves around destroying Process, as it being perceived as the main show stopped in developing inland (rightfully or not, but I liked the interesting point of view) 2) The ending - if I'm not mistaken, the final decision was again, not to develop inland, but build yet another "protected city" with offshore technologies. So, in the view of writers, the problem wasn't "the system" but "evil" people in charge. And re-creating the same system but with "good" people in charge - is the road to happiness. That's so realistic for many countries that TV series deserves 4 just for it.

So far, the only versions of the second season I can find are dubbed, horribly. If you can find a version with the original language it might be watchable, season one was a decent time passer. But I refuse to put up with dubbing, the heck with banning guns, ban dubbing first.