Nick Offerman, best known for his comic turn in “Parks and Recreation”, convincingly balances on the knife-edge between visionary and villain
“DEVS”, A NEW eight-part miniseries written and directed by Alex Garland, is a kind of sci-fi thriller. The action takes place in present-day San Francisco; it follows the employees of Amaya, a secretive tech company, who shuttle between the firm’s photogenically wooded, Silicon Valley campus and their nice lives in the city itself. It begins with the show’s heroine, Lily Chan , and her boyfriend Sergei , getting up to go to work.
Mr Garland rose to fame in the 1990s with the publication of his novel “The Beach”, later made into a film starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Since then, he has mostly focused his attention on the movie business. He wrote the scripts for “28 Days Later” and “Never Let me Go” , both commercial successes; his directorial debut was the deft science-fiction thriller “Ex Machina” in 2014, followed four years later by the chilling and otherworldly “”.
“Devs” gets a lot right: Mr Garland succeeds in unnerving and unsettling his viewers. The fictional Amaya contains echoes of a Facebook or an Uber, a hierarchical firm with too much money and a decidedly off-kilter moral compass. His characters are intriguing enough to hold viewers’ attention over eight hours. Mr Offerman, who is best known for his comic turn as Ron Swanson in the sitcom “Parks and Recreation”, convincingly balances on the knife-edge between visionary and villain.
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