Current Events > Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams is pretty darned good

(+) Yeah! (+)

Everyone talks about Black Mirror all the time but this show feels so much better.
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I've only seen a couple episodes, but it seems pretty good to me too. Both the episodes started out a little rough, but in the end, they left me impressed.
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I had no idea this series existed! But yeah his short stories are great so I'll be checking this out, thanks for the heads up
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His work in general is really goddamn good.

There's also a ton of it.
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Pus_N_Pecans posted...

I've only seen a couple episodes, but it seems pretty good to me too. Both the episodes started out a little rough, but in the end, they left me impressed.

Yeah but so far we've enjoyed all the episodes (up to... 7 I think now), whereas Black Mirror was far more hit or miss and even some of the "hit" episodes dragged at times.

LinksLiege posted...

His work in general is really goddamn good.

There's also a ton of it.

Do you think the show takes a lot of liberties with the stories? It's just interesting to think this author was writing stories about technologies like this so long ago.
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Hexenherz posted...

Do you think the show takes a lot of liberties with the stories? It's just interesting to think this author was writing stories about technologies like this so long ago.

I haven't seen the show so I have no idea. >->

I was just talking about the stories themselves. Sci-fi plus lots of drugs.
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Oh lol fair enough. Sorry had just assumed you had seen it.
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So I found this site that explains the differences between the short stories and their respective episodes.

It's really fascinating how sometimes it's almost 1:1, sometimes the only similarity is the name of the characters, or sometimes all the elements are still there but a theme has been updated to reflect modern fears or values.

Spoilers obviously.

http://www.vulture.com/2018/02/electric-dreams-philip-k-dick-short-story-comparison.html
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i know why. but still kind of wanted an episode on it's sort of name sake.
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Interesting. I'll have to see if I can watch this.

My guess is it's not as popular because it's on an Amazon exclusive.

Dragonblade01 posted...

Interesting. I'll have to see if I can watch this.

My guess is it's not as popular because it's on an Amazon exclusive.

That's probably true, even the bigger name Amazon titles don't get a lot of discussion :|

I guess it was a British TV show originally though.
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