Memorable, crazy movie

Beautiful, moving film.

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

After getting so used to un-original and predictable story-lines in most TV shows, I was blown away by this. I am a science fiction and fantasy fan, in fact I write it (not well:)) and this is one of the best TV shows I have seen in a long time. Part of the reason I started writing myself was due to the lack of original stories out there. Again and again I would start to watch something and be shocked at how thin the plot was and predictable the characters and choices they made were.Incorporated has depth, it has real storytelling that takes the viewer in unexpected directions. In directions that even though are set in a dystopian future, not so subtle hints of current real world issues come to mind. At the end of each episode I would be grinning with the sheer brilliance of the direction. I am flabbergasted beyond belief that this was canceled. When I see, time and time again, films and TV shows that are so lacking in depth, and I wonder how on earth networks throw money at them and then something as original as Incorporated comes along and it is canceled? Gutted.For anyone with imagination, any of you reading this who end up writing stories yourselves because you can barely find anything with enough depth to capture your curiosity and appreciation, this is a must.I just hope that a movie based on this will be developed because it is too good to just stop where it leaves off. S A Strongheart. Ps, don't let the fact there is only one season put you off, it is brilliant.

Clearly, the Spiga corporation who is the ruthless power is patterned after Monsanto. Monsanto is a vicious, power hungry, sue happy, GMO dangerous, roundup ready corporation in real life whose cow hormones in our milk & roundup weed killer in their GMO soy & corn make us ill. They have been banned around the world except US & Canada where they are 95% of the market.I suspect they recognized themselves in this series & exerted pressure to have this 75% positive review, yet unflattering series about their abuse canceled.The high tech & effects were superb. The actors were great. And I'm delighted the cast was not making us ill by smoking. The real surprise was watching this series during the Houston floods was so close to current real life I was stunned. The scene of flooded & hurricane damaged coastal cities from glacier melting as the planet heats up matched the real world exactly. As did the Fema camps filled with refuges, held at gunpoint without food to sustain them. Not to mention the scenes of Spiga rescuing & feeding flood victims because the gov't agencies steal the donations & do not provide anything for the victims. A true IRL of what is now ongoing today.However, I did not care for the key actor who played Ben Larson. Nor did I care for constant violence or the obsession with some childhood girlfriend whom they dragged through every episode ad nauseam. Nor should audiences have to endure someone deliberately cutting themselves. That doesn't belong on any TV. Who would want their family exposed to the unrelenting violence in this show. That could have been eliminated for a second season without cancellation. The public would benefit from watching their future where we will surely be under corporate control in the near future.This show could have been great by focusing more on technology, hazards of the food they produce, experiments showing effects on humans & their health & the dirty plans with their products. This moral have been an easy fix without requiring any violence & lame old girlfriend themes.Otherwise a great series which had no reason to be canceled at a 75% rating.

After season one, the judgment is clear. This show is better than average.Classic cyberpunk themes like, climate change and society collapse, "high tech low life" in red zones and luxury bought with loyalty to the megacorporations in the green zones. Protagonist and other characters in the series are constantly facing the same moral dilemma in every level: choosing between self preservation and morality, looking after the number one and looking after the common good. Everything in the society works against choosing the latter. The show has good production value and grand vision. The story itself, what happens to the people and how they manage provides suspense without being very original, but it's good fun. The real star is the world those characters live in. (It's clearly better than Colony. Close or similar in quality to Expanse)

...there are some serious holes in story line. The premise, about a "climate refugee", Aaron/Ben (Sean Teale, very good in the role) trying to infiltrate the "super corporation", SPIGA, who is one of the major controlling forces in the US, is interesting and engrossing. He comes from nothing and manages to make the right (underworld) connections that allow him to do this risky feat as a sort of "mole" on the inside, who is using his position to locate a former friend/first love (played by Denyse Tontz) who's disappeared from the slums and off the map it seems.Teale is flanked by some notable talent, like Julia Ormond as the upper echelon corporate heavy who's also, by chance, his mother in law. Dennis Haysbert lends menace as Ormond's fellow company baddie who acts as the enforcer. Allison Miller, as Ben's wife Laura, is perhaps the most sympathetic character to me, as a doctor born to the upper class who actually has a conscience where the less fortunate are concerned and struggles with it on a daily basis. Again, cool plot about what could happen when corporations take over after governments crumble and privatization and the almighty buck rule. That's the good.I had issue with two things in particular. The first is how seemingly easy it was for Aaron/Ben to infiltrate the Spiga corporation. Wouldn't a highly technologically sound company like that have better vetting methods for people coming in? The other "Huh?" moment came when the show mentioned that 90 percent of the world fell victim to climate change and that the heartlands of the US were dust bowls while coastal cities like New York and Seattle were flooded, yet Canada, which is paraded as the place so many are trying to flee to is somehow immune to this? No mention of any disaster or upheaval or famine or whatever else the rest of the planet seems to be enduring. The show touts Winnipeg as some chosen place to flee to but, why wouldn't that area fall victim to the same climate hazards experienced in the lands to the south of it? No food shortage? No corporations making a play for dominance? Did the big oil companies there just disappear and not make a play like the mega corps did in most other companies? Did climate change suddenly stop at the borders? When France and Spain are mentioned as desert lands, it's hard to believe that wouldn't be the same for almost everywhere within similar latitudes, including Canada, where, by the way, privatization of certain govt. functions is already in effect, like in transportation systems, for instance. Also hard to believe that Ottawa would still be stably governed by the Prime Minister while most other nations bag out to private industry mega corps. No hate here for Canada, people, that's my family up there so I'm just making an observation or two so please chill. It's the holes in an otherwise interesting show that might need some more fact checking or at least better explanations for the curious folks who like a little science out here.