Submitted by Bluest_waters t3_ybku06 in television
William Gibson literally invented the cyber punk genre. This show is based on one of his later novels. Its about people who are paid to assume the game play avatars of rich folks to get them to higher levels of game play.
Our hero takes on a contract and plays a game about kidnapping and organ theft that seems like it is hyper real, way too real. Drama and chaos ensues.
Its really not bad! There are two hour long eps available now, and it takes about 30 minuets to get going but once it does its involving. It get bogged down here and there but the underlying premise is inventive and kept my interest.
I don't know why Amazon has such lackluster acting in so many of hits originals but this one is the same. Not bad acting, just kind of okay. But if you like the cyber punk genre I think you will like this show. NOt great but certainly good enough.
Bluest_waters OP t1_itgv3iv wrote
>William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk. Beginning his writing career in the late 1970s, his early works were noir, near-future stories that explored the effects of technology, cybernetics, and computer networks on humans—a "combination of lowlife and high tech"[4]—and helped to create an iconography for the information age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s.[5] Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" for "widespread, interconnected digital technology" in his short story "Burning Chrome" (1982), and later popularized the concept in his acclaimed debut novel Neuromancer (1984). These early works of Gibson's have been credited with "renovating" science fiction literature in the 1980s.