AMC Plus’ Pantheon is a hyperproductivity nightmare that shouldn’t feel so real
, becomes a story about people rallying together in the face of the show’s villains: two unfathomably powerful tech giants. But it’s
mindful about spotlighting the small personal losses its heroes experience as their paths gradually intersect with one another — something that keepsPantheon’sAs impossible as it seems that David’s consciousness in its fullness could somehow exist on his daughter’s hard drive, perfecting the process to upload people’s minds onto servers is precisely whattakes its time as it clues you in to how the rival tech firms plan to deploy their respective takes on “uploaded intelligence” tech in hopes of...
For Caspian , another brilliant and withdrawn teenager who spends too much time online, it’s the way his father abuses his mother that’s eating him up inside rather than either of them being dead. But the implosion of his family is a kind of death that he, much like Maddie, copes with by escaping into the kinds of digital communities that can become lifelines for people who feel detached from society.
pulls heavily from the near-future dystopian sci-fi canon, the show avoids coasting on a general sense of technopanic, which in turn keeps the season feeling like a story about realistic people trying to navigate a world that they actually understand. DeWitt’s Ellen and Kim’s David aren’t hapless analog parents trying to keep up with their digital-native daughter — they’re every bit as tech-savvy and potentially in danger as she is because that’s what it takes to succeed in their fields.
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