Are you going to check out Devs (or have you already)?

@dwp1slyfox

4 жыл бұрын

It's been added to my list of shows to watch on Hulu.....it might take me awhile to get to it though. My backlog is strong in games, movies, and tv shows.

@iamJoeTheThird

4 жыл бұрын

I enjoyed the first two episodes available on Hulu. I didn't know what to expect from the teasers which aired on FX.

@HSGeorgiev

4 жыл бұрын

Watched first two episodes HBOGo, seems really good, still to early to judge. Actually I really enjoyed it.

@samfletcher9093

4 жыл бұрын

GameSpot Universe I’ve watched the first two episodes twice already! So good!

@dr.inkwell1070

4 жыл бұрын

Great three episodes so far. I hope I'm not disappointed in the direction they go. (my wild imagination usually is) Im hoping theyre trying to "figure out" reality like some matrix shit. And maybe even learn to effect/control the universe, like some witchcraft/matrix coding shit.

Alex Garland is such a dude. Amazing writer, screenwriter and director. Everything he does is amazing! Loving Devs.

I love his technique on writing, he immersers himself in the idea, then writes it only once he's at an understanding with himself that its time to throw subjects into this concept.

@ArifGhostwriter

Жыл бұрын

Michael Crichton used to do this. Loved his work.

Devs is a psychedelic trippy trip I never knew I needed wanted n craved for... Great show

This is what REAL SciFi look like. Great so far!

@risistince

4 жыл бұрын

MegaAlpakka Jesus was a historical figure that existed. They never said their Jesus was the messiah and they reject God completely.

@risistince

4 жыл бұрын

@Snaggle Toothed who cares?

Absolutely blew me away with his cinematography and soundtrack. Mizuno was perfect for the lead in this. Fabulous ....more please, and soon.

Just watch the final episode and omg the guy is a genius. I wish there was someone I could talk to about this show but no one I know watches it :-(

@cmooreHD

4 жыл бұрын

kadeem. I felt the exact same way!!!! I just sat there looking around like ...where are my real friends!!

@lobomella128

4 жыл бұрын

Here I am recommending it to all my friends so I'll have someone to text about it with - damn isolation...

@killakaiju

4 жыл бұрын

I got some of my family to watch it and they all are into devs now ☺️

@samuraisoul1043

4 жыл бұрын

Well what was your theory . Kate is god Lilith did the first sin forest was like Jesus . I have a left field shout but it’s wrong but Pandora’s box has hope but if it’s opened it will destroy the world but the shroud of Turin reference . Is strong. When her boyfriend got burnt I thought of Prometheus trying to steal and give knowledge to humanity. But definitely the former theory I think .whatever way you take it it ends properly but gives you many ways to look at it. Thought provoking masterpiece.

@livacreative

4 жыл бұрын

I feel you man, this show is one of the best shows ever I watched.

AG is one cool dude. Love his work. And Devs is the perfect platform for his dark, sci-fi style. I love how he subtly builds the mystery where you're constantly wondering what the hell is going on and, at the end of every episode, what could possibly happen next. I hope there's multiple seasons of this story.

I love hearing Alex Garland speak. He's so soothing

I highly, HIGHLY recommend reading "The Light of Other Days" by Arthur C. Clarke. So far it's almost like this series is loosely based on that book. One of my favorite Clarke books.

@jackcroatan

4 жыл бұрын

just told the same thing to my wife

@MisterSifuentes

4 жыл бұрын

Recommend any others?

@Mr_Case_Time

4 жыл бұрын

@Zombobo Smith my favorite Asimov book is Pebble in the Sky. It has everything.

@Mr_Case_Time

4 жыл бұрын

@@MisterSifuentes I would also recommend the Rendezvous with Rama series.

@Mr_Case_Time

4 жыл бұрын

@Zombobo Smith Pebble in the Sky is set in the Galactic Empire. I do agree with your assessment of the silver age if sci-fi, it's very dated. The Gods Themselves is another great one.

This interviewer is brilliant - speaking to one of the most thoughtful, intelligent, curious writer/directors working today, with thoughtful, intelligent, curious questions. A fascinating conversation with a guy who's proving himself a master at existential Sci-Fi

The quietness of this show is brilliant!

Ive seen the first five eps and I must say it reminds me alot of the movie Arrival. Garland is a very underrated creator.

Excellent interview - Intelligent questions combined with intelligent answers. Kudos to all involved.

@chastityvicencio6

4 жыл бұрын

theoldhip Thank you!

Alex confirmed to be a Souls bro, praise the sun ☀

@jasoninde3369

4 жыл бұрын

hahaha

@daveconrad6562

4 жыл бұрын

Huh?

@kswg2009

4 жыл бұрын

Spoiler: Too bad Jamie never finished Dark Souls II!!

@MaxDeckard

3 жыл бұрын

Watch "sunshine" from 2007.

Alex Garland story telling reminds me of Michael Creighton who I also love. The actors in Devs did a great job. I really enjoyed the series.

I think the inside of the devs building has has some similarities with the engine in Event Horizon.

This concept reminds me of the theory that you can recreate what is out of view (behind a building for example) based on the lights, shadows, particles in the air, heat, etc. if the quantum computer has all of the data, it could predict reliably. The problem is, we are so limited in our understanding of physics, the elements, and dimensional influence, that we can’t give the machine sufficient data to accurately extrapolate. If we made the machine smart enough though, it might start to understand things we don’t, add these unknown factors creating its own library of alternative physics, and make determinations. The machine could be right, but using computing and information that we weren’t aware it was using. We would expect one outcome, it would predict a different outcome, which actually was correct, and we would think there was an error in its processing even though it came up with the right result. Once we start investigating and digging into its code, we would realize it is understanding things we don’t and aren’t aware even exist.

This was a really excellent interview. Great questions and giving Alex all the time he needed to explain his thoughts, and really bringing his fascinations and sources of inspiration to the front and centre of our minds, as well as his passion for ideas, science, quantum and "Dark Souls". I will definitely be subscribing if this is representative of standard calibre of interviews. Keep it up.

@chastityvicencio6

4 жыл бұрын

Moustachio X Thank you very much!

everything this guy directs is fire af

@cmooreHD

4 жыл бұрын

Agreed !!

@MaxDeckard

3 жыл бұрын

Did you like "sunshine"? Everyone i know hates it. But man... Its beautiful.

Episode 3 is great, love the show so far and the conversations about tech responsibility feel spot on.

@edweinb

4 жыл бұрын

I really thought the Lily character was crazy.

@EscapeCondition

4 жыл бұрын

@@edweinb I was worried when sergei was killed b/c his acting was so great but she's picked up the slack. I also like how creepy the giant statue of the founder's daughter looked from different angles, good commentary on what happens when you distort people's legacies for your own ambitions.

@DjangoCaron

4 жыл бұрын

wait till you see ep 7!!

I've been reading about determinism and free will, seeing a series on the subject and by Alex Garland has me hyped.

Great interview. Garland needs a calm environment to relax, I think. You gave him that, so he opened up.

feels really good to think like him, just hope i have an actual opportunity to learn these things from those amazing people!

Insanely good syfi show/series. Every new program AG developed seems to be better than the last one, keep them coming!

When Forest is commenting on the 2000 year old projection of Jesus he tells the team "I know you will do better". I took this to mean that Forest wants higher fidelity results. Katie calls it too "fuzzy". I think the problem that Forest isn't taking into account was foreshadowed in the beginning of the series. In the first episode Sergei is doing a demonstration with the C. elegans nematode. He's only able to maintain accuracy for a few seconds before the prediction of the worms behavior falls out of synch. After the experiment fails Forest asks Sergei to explain what happened. Forest is essentially asking him why he was only able to predict the worms future for 30 seconds. Sergei offers two hypothesis. A. Sergei hypothesizes there is too much data and the numbers get too "insane" to manage. Meaning he doesn't have enough processing power to handle the calculations. B. Sergei hypothesizes that the multiverse is interfering with the experiment somehow. His exact words are "it's a quantum type problem. Somewhere in the multiverse there's a world where they stay in synch, but it's not this one." Forest dismisses hypothesis B by saying he's "not a fan of the multiverse". But he also never denies the multiverse exists. He just says he's "not a fan." If the multiverse is causing Sergei's experiment to fail it might be causing DEVS to fail at ther goal. If this is the true they probably wouldn't be "fans" of the multiverse. Sergei's demonstration with the worm is just a small scale version of what the DEVS team is doing. That being, the use of initial conditions and deterministic laws of motion to recreate past events. The DEVS team has essentially solved the problem that Sergey hypothesized in A. Their AI assisted quantum computer should be powerful enough to handle the data required to do macroscopic calculations of quantum systems. So why isn't DEVS able to create a photo realistic visual of an event 2000 years into the past, even tho Forest described the DEVS quantum computer as having so many qubits that "it doesn't even make sense to express it as a number"? Sergei's nematode experiment failed for the same reason DEVS can't get a clear picture of the crucifixion. That being the nature of reality and the multiverse specifically. Alex Garland (the creator of DEVS) talks about David Deutsch's ideas being his main inspiration for the show. Deutsch is best known for his pioneering work in quantum computing and it's inexorable link to the multiverse. Something to keep in mind.

@ZenMaster_

4 жыл бұрын

a bit OT maybe, but is "Interstellar"(Chris Nolan, 2014) a multi-verse story?

@acetate909

4 жыл бұрын

@@ZenMaster_ Not as I understood the movie. The main concept in interstellar is general relativity. The idea that time flows slower when influenced by intense gravity. I never really understood what the ending of Interstellar was about. Love transcending time or something? The end of that movie seemed to depart from the actual the science of physics. I don't believe any part of Interstllar was referencing the multi-verse. I've listened to the Kip Thorne's hour long talk in which he speaks to being a science advisor on that movie and he doesn't invoke the multi-verse either.

@ZenMaster_

4 жыл бұрын

Evan Fields It’s the "dimensional thing”, behind the bookshelf you know. Can it be the intersection between to -verses?

@acetate909

4 жыл бұрын

@@ZenMaster_ It very well could be. I haven't watched the movie in years so I forget some of the details but I do remember being confused by the ending. If you want to better understand the movie I would recommend searching "Kip Thorne/ Interstellar". Kip is a Nobel prize winning Cal Tech physicist who Nolan used as a science advisor on the movie. Kip wrote a book in the 90s called Black Holes and Time Warps. The prologue to the book is a short sci-fi story in which Kip uses a fictional space ship as a tool to demonstrate the concepts he's trying to explain. I would recommend it if you're into that kind of science. Kip recorded several talks that he gave about the science of Interstellar. I watched one of them after watching the movie, hoping to gain some insight into the ambiguous ending. I don't think I ever recieved a satisfactory explanation. Nolan always seemed kind of hand wavy about the ending and I don't remember Kip even trying to explain it. I think that maybe it's supposed to be one of those narratives that's not well defined and the audience is supposed decide for themselves. Kind of like the end of Inception. I dont remember Nolan talking about the multi-verse but I havent looked into that much so I could very well be wrong. The multi-verse theory would actually make more sense than the explanation Nolan usually gives which generally involves love and woo-woo physics. I like Interstellar and I really like Nolan but I never understood the ending of that movie. That's kind of Nolans thing tho, ambiguous endings. Sorry I couldn't be more helpful than "I dont really know".

@moneebkhan2624

4 жыл бұрын

wait... who are you actually?

One of my all time favorite shows and creators!

Thanks for the video. I had NO idea what the show was going to be. This helps immensely. :-)

@chastityvicencio6

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching!

I just realized Lily is the Asian chick that was dancing with the Genius dude in Ex Machina

@writerblaster

4 жыл бұрын

She's also the one 'dancing' with Natalie Portman in the end of Annihilation

@papinbala

4 жыл бұрын

@@writerblaster i wouldn't call that dancing but yea

@blotterdowney8075

4 жыл бұрын

Kyoko

Great interview with good questions. One that I’d like to ask is, did he insist on each episode being released individually as opposed to a full season, or was that the producers/fX/Hulu? My money is on Alex btw, because it fits the show’s tone.

i fucking love this show. kudos to FX for recognizing Garland's "genius" so we can enjoy more of his work.

Its filmed mostly at UC Santa Cruz, yay!, with other scenes in town and in San Francisco.

Watched it after Severance. Did not disappoint. Deciding what to watch next.

Thoroughly enjoyed this show the science and direction and cinematography was fantastic we need more series made in this genre

Pbs spacetime brought me here 😊

@impromptu24

4 жыл бұрын

Ditto! Was waiting for what seems like forever until the reference to Spacetime was made

@leliel12th43

4 жыл бұрын

which episode?

@Browningate

4 жыл бұрын

The cool people were brought by Ben Shapiro though.

@asherwilkins465

4 жыл бұрын

I'm just amazed that he mentioned space time I didn't see the episode

I'll watch/read anything that has an association with Alex Garland!!

The show was very intriguing. I want to see where it goes after ep2

I've got three episodes to go and its fantastic. It hurts my mind; in a good way.

Garland is a god damn master. Can't wait to watch it.

Donni Darko prepared me for this show Westworld made me watch it.

When’s it out ?

I think it both comforts and separates us out of taking responsibility for the human condition. For instance, I have a habit of thinking "If I've worked it out someone else already has, and it might be part of a bigger plan."

Does anybody have recommendations for other tv or movies I would like if I liked this?

Anything by alex garland I will watch.... brilliant writer of tech fiction.

I like his fascination about Dark Souls, they way he talks about it, Alex Garland seems like a cool dude :)

Alex from the Beach to Devs. I knew u had some kind of je ne sais quoi, excellent!

I have got to watch this show. I need to process it

It's funny. I watched this with my partner. I had a grounding in the ideas presented, I knew roughly what they were talking about, and I knew the ending wasn't going to really satisfy any of the questions, because a satisfying answer to these questions would require an actual answer to a paradox. My partner was a lot more disappointed by the ending, because she was expecting something more than what actually exists :p

i didn't even know this show existed at all! found Alex Garland an interesting person and also the show...

Saw ex machine and I loved it. Saw Devs and started looking up this guy work. Just saw Annihilation and now I'm a fan!!!

@pooryungchap

4 жыл бұрын

Dredd is also worth a watch, he wrote and helped direct it

@rickybobby4827

4 жыл бұрын

So I have been a fan of this guy I just didn't know it!! I loved dredd. I'm going to look up all his work now.

Woah, you mention Annihilation but fail to mention Jeff VanderMeer?!?

I probably wasn’t gonna watch it at all, but after listening to Alex speak, I’m hooked without watching it

@neilquinn

4 жыл бұрын

Don't waste your time... it's painfully bad.

@divinealien7620

4 жыл бұрын

@@neilquinn why?

Did I miss it, or was there no discussion of the music/sound track? It is quite something.

@Lgg130

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah a shame that wasn't picked up

Not going to lie... Sounds like a fucking BRILLIANT premise.

Brilliant auteur ! I wonder if DEVS has anything to do with Project Looking Glass ....🧐

Completed it, the name is explain at the final episode. Very matrix like.

Came to hear the shoutout to PBS Space Time

I'm going to check out this show _because_ he put Dark Souls in there.

@cmooreHD

4 жыл бұрын

It’s worth it!

Good coroner would've found that there is no soot in lungs of Sergei

That gold room looks so familiar

@whatchachattin

4 жыл бұрын

To the wallace corporation in blade runner 2049 mixed with the Beinecke Library at Yale University?

I pretty much everything Garland makes, so, I will have to watch this somehow.

We need episode breakdowns

@chastityvicencio6

4 жыл бұрын

Come back on Monday!

@killakaiju

4 жыл бұрын

@@chastityvicencio6 just finished episode 2 can't wait to check it out ☺️

Good questions.

Imagine him directing Half life movie/series

DEVs was a company that developed a software that could look into the past and present.

Alex actually also directed Dredd (ghost director..)

@halcyondaystunes

2 жыл бұрын

You can tell by looking at his other work. Everything he dies has a dreamy look to it.

The script for this series mainly uses the word "fuck" as a fill in I've noticed. Groundbreaking.

I hope they give Isaac Asimov a credit . The premise seems reminiscent of his Foundation series and his concept of Psychohistory .

As soon as I saw a Menger Sponge I was hooked.

Love this show. My new favorite. Westworld is now second place LOL

so basically devs created rehoboam from the westworld.

@darshilshah249

4 жыл бұрын

Haha

Alex's voice did not agree with my stereo setup in the living-room, but sounded fine on my airpods, weird. The base I presume.

It is on HBO to.

Love you Alex

Watched it quite Liked it , picked holes in it but did it matter as we are not really here. Lol xx

SPACE TIME!!!!

Devs space looks like from The Cube movie

Okay the fact that he both mentioned PBS space time and referenced the dude's beard like he really genuinely watches KZread videos, followed up by his admiration for speedruns of dark souls. I don't know guys I think we just found our new Jesus

Masterpiece

How the water, sewege and electricity is connected to the Devs inner chamber?

@wino0000006

4 жыл бұрын

@Albert Barnett Sergei used restroom within the inner chamber.

@chuckkarmes6812

4 жыл бұрын

You don't need to be connected to a sewer, you can use holding tanks that are periodically emptied. Same for water.

@wino0000006

4 жыл бұрын

@@chuckkarmes6812 So only chosen one can enter devs building but not for the maintenance crew? And everything is conducted through that levitating "bridge"? As Forest said - there are no janitors - so It's a plot hole.

Think like Tv time machine/the matrix minus the plugging in.

Anyone who starts lower or middle class and ends up a Silicon Valley billionaire is indeed a genius. They're not "just" really good entrepreneurs and salesmen. There are lots of great entrepreneurs and salesmen in the world, but most of them don't end up billionaires. It takes real genius to bring together other great minds, great ideas, and then direct them to produce something that sells. Everyone wants to hate the rich, but only because they wish they themselves were rich. It's called "resentment", like Aesop's fable about the fox and the "sour" grapes. We like to think that rich people inherited the money, married into money, got lucky, or did something unethical. It makes us feel inferior and resentful to think that they're either inherently superior and/or they simply worked a lot harder than us. This is why the entertainment industry ceaselessly makes rich people and corporations the antagonists in their stories.

Checkout cern and D wave

there is a little problem in the way of this hypothesis and its called heisenberg's uncertainty principle amongst others So it's more of a fantasy rather than a well grounded scifi

@CanalTremocos

4 жыл бұрын

The 'fi' part on their scifi is they managed somehow to develop a heuristics approach to solve wave equations without being caught-up on duality.

Weird he didn't put the game he wrote in the show

Devs is awesome.

@rajivsen3123

4 жыл бұрын

So true

i love this guy

The IT Crowd taken to a serious dramatic level. I can't wait till someone calls in and one of the characters yells into the phone... "Have you tried turning it off and on again?"

Guys, watch Spacetime. It’s fucking great.

welp, now I hope this guy make a Dark Souls movie.

The devs building looks just like The Icarus II.

Westworld season 3 basically... the super computer called Rehoboam that learns everything about its user to ensure that the user goes on the "right path" or makes the "right" decision... basically this series is about the technicians behind that machine LOL

@Largentina.

4 жыл бұрын

The difference is, Devs is actually good.

PBS Spacetime!

PBS space time rocks!

Looks stunning but there are some really flat performances which spoil it for me especially when one is the lead. If I stick with it, it will purely be for Alex Garland as I loved The Coma and the conscious v subconscious mind does not seem too far away from Devs. Best performance is from Kenton the misunderstood security of the company :) From novelist to director is not move I would have expected but it works and he has a great visual eye. I just wanted more from the 2 leads.

I want him to take all my money and keep making more

Lilly didn't need long hair or makeup. Her natural beauty was more than efficient.

I really liked dredd

The Pilot wave theory is amazing( and deterministic) and very complex of course. Nonetheless, the theory does not work with Einstein's relativity theory. That is what I read. Anyway, the lead actress is omg needs acting training-!

Universe is deterministic.

@longjohnmcbigdong8541

4 жыл бұрын

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4 жыл бұрын

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