Waste of time

To me, this movie is perfection.

Expected more

Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

I watched this series (in Brazilian Portugese with English subtitles) because it was different (Brazilian sf) and had a high rating (7.6 at the time). However, I found it extremely disappointing. The story, after episode 1, really is very boring and if it goes anywhere it does so at a glacial pace. None of the characters are likeable or relatable and almost the entire series takes place in one single setting. The acting is poor and the camera work makes you seasick (short takes, close-up and shaky). The whole thing seems aimed at the "young adult" audience (like the Hunger Games) - maybe I'm just too old.

So used to American shows. This is out of the box and one of a kind show. I can not wait for the third season!

As far as the actual story its ok. The characters seem very morally neutral so its kind of hard to care about any of them or the world in which they live. The test itself is kind of interesting.As far as the plot holes... the first giant one is that they are culling the population. This is basic biology, They take everybody who passes their test and sterilize them They are culling the traits that the test selects. Maybe that is why everybody is so stupid and mean? The other giant one is just the absurdity of the situation. This one island is perfect but everywhere else is screwed? That makes no sense. Why don't they make more of these super magic robots that do all the work? Why does nobody work? Everybody just sits around and complains. Apparently nobody washes clothes or fixes houses, The magic robots are the only thing that does any work.Lets talk about the Marxist social commentary. Nobody produces anything. The only actual work is done by these magical robots that are controlled by the offshore, There are 2 classes: the rich who get handouts from the magic worker robots and the poor who do not. It seemed to me like we were supposed to cheer for the poor people to rise up., Why? All they are going to do is destroy the only good place left in the world and they are no better than the people who live there, I just hope everybody dies at the end because they are all such horrible people. There isn't a single person who is even trying to improve conditions for everybody, Every single person is selfish and stupidly selfish, The resistance talks about dying for the greater good, Yeah, exactly, the 'greater good' always involves a lot of people dying, Every time Marxists seize power they kill millions of their own citizens for the 'greater good' except it never is for the good of anybody,.

This strikes me as a better version of the hunger games, they actually creates a fascinating future society that reflects whats going on in our current like a bent mirror. Now this is certainly not perfect but its good enough to be funDont try use the english dubbs use subtitles or else you might just as well not bother watching this, it makes that big a difference.