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Started watching "Electric Dreams" on Amazon Prime despite the somewhat gaudy logo. Amazon has a lot of B, C and D grade junk mixed in with the good stuff so I was pleasantly surprised at how good this one is.

It's a sci-fi anthology series based on Philip K. Dick's short stories so each one is totally different. Very good production values and some well known names in the cast - Bryan Cranston, Steve Buscemi and Anna Paquin are some I've seen so far. The stories are set from near to far future and while they can get a bit gritty are generally not as dark as Black Mirror. Each episode is about 50 minutes give or take a couple minutes. Definitely R rated for language and "almost" T and A, but actually less of that than you'd see on a typical HBO series.

If you stream Amazon and like well done science fiction give it a try.


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I've watched eight episodes so far. Like any collection of short stories some are better than others and the subject matter of some is more interesting than others, but overall it's a good series. With so much mediocre writing and thin plot lines on mass market TV shows I've often wondered why they didn't tap into the rich territory of good short story writers for anthology shows like this. Especially now with excellent CGI available they can really bring the writers' visions to life. I hope this show is successful enough to do shows from other good writers, particularly the ones from my youth like Heinlein, Clarke, Asimov and so forth.


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