[ExI] Film Review: Pantheon 2022

[Gadersd]

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/

> On Feb 12, 2023, at 12:43 PM, Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> I stumbled across an amazing, but very under-hyped, 8 episode AMC+ original television series from 2022 called "Pantheon".
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> First off, it is an anime-style cartoon drawn in a softly beautiful fashion, like water colors only sharper.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Stuart LaForge
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