Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams

Watch: Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams Season 1 Episode 1

S1 EP1

TV-MA

10 episodes1 season

US Release

Overview:

A diverse anthology of ambitious, moving tales inspired by Philip K Dick's short stories.

Created by:

Status:

Ended

Language:

English

First air date:

9/17/2017

Last air date:

3/19/2018

Key words:

futuristic
anthology
cyberpunk
based on short story
blade runner

Seasons

Season 1

10 Episodes

Cast

Steve Buscemi

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Ed Morris

Annalise Basso

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Foster Lee

Timothy Spall

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Ed Jacobson

Rebecca Manley

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Mary Jacobson

Anthony Boyle

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Sam Jacobson

Rudi Dharmalingam

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Bob Paine

Tuppence Middleton

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Linda

Anne Reid

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Martine Jenkins

Ann Akinjirin

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Dr. Simpson

Hayley Squires

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Waitress

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Reviews (1)

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Written 11 month(s) ago
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Generally a strong cast, although there are exceptions, they guy from Game of Thrones is a stand-out for charisma vaccuum, but you've got Timothy Spall, Benedict Wong, Bryan Cranston etcetera etcetera - in fact, there's pretty much every reason for this to be good, with excellent source material and an excellent cast.

I suspect as this was a co-production by Channel 4 (UK) and Amazon (fronting the monies) that this was used as some kind of testing ground for directors to have an episode each.

The problem is that none of them are good. Passable, sure, but not good and certainly not great. I'm not going to write much beyond the first episode as I'm going to match the effort that's gone into this. You get GoT's nepo-baby as future-detective, you know he's a detective because he's wearing a noir-style detective hat... it follows the story fairly faithfully, but that's not how you throw a petrol bomb at police - you'd throw many and have a source of petrol to douse between their feet - but who cares about realism when you've got "angsty", detective noir-hat to suck the life out of every scene. I very nearly canned the entire thing at this point. Again, it follows the story fairly well, but it's just so unambitious and lifeless, at best it looks like a high-end advert for a kitchen appliace (as opposed to a car (which would have been far more ambition than we got)) and has about as much emotional pull.

After a clumsy, charmless start there's 9 more episodes that get a bit better, but again all in the hands of the cast and falls through the fingers of various directors.

Skip the first episode if you have a rainy day and nothing else to watch, it's fairly passable.