[ExI] Film Review: Pantheon 2022

[Stuart LaForge]

Quoting Gadersd via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>:

> Unfortunately, the second season is scrapped even though it has been  
> completed.
> https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/pantheon-canceled-season-two-amc-plus-1235481759/

Not only did they cancel season 2, they took season 1 off their  
service. That is very strange. Why would any TV streaming service  
shoot themselves in the foot by cancelling and taking off their  
channel a show that had a 100% critics rating and 90% audience rating  
from Rotten Tomatoes? https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/pantheon/s01

Was it too controversial? Did the premise of technological immortality  
conflict with the station's Christian values? Is this some kind of  
censorship to keep the masses ignorant of what is technologically  
imminent?

Stuart LaForge



>> On Feb 12, 2023, at 12:43 PM, Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat  
>> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> I stumbled across an amazing, but very under-hyped, 8 episode AMC+  
>> original television series from 2022 called "Pantheon".
>>
>> First off, it is an anime-style cartoon drawn in a softly beautiful  
>> fashion, like water colors only sharper.
>>
>> Secondly, the writing is outstanding. It starts off innocuously as  
>> a family drama revolving around a gifted computer programmer living  
>> in Palo Alto, California dealing with his adolescent daughter's  
>> teenage angst and then veers off into a suspenseful and incredibly  
>> realistic near-term science fiction about the trials and  
>> tribulations both faced and caused by the world's first few  
>> uploaded people that the film calls UI for uploaded intelligence.
>>
>> Thirdly, the acting is incredible. There is so much pathos that the  
>> entire story seems driven by the viewer's empathy for the  
>> characters in the story, both human and transhuman. Notably, this  
>> was the last performance of actor William Hurt before he died and  
>> he seriously delivers in his role.
>>
>> This is easily one of the best transhumanist science fiction  
>> stories I have ever watched. It gracefully navigates themes of  
>> greed, technology, love, loss, family, and what it truly means to  
>> be human. It is so elegant in its technical execution that even the  
>> soundtrack contributes to the story.
>>
>> Stuart LaForge
>>
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