i brought my own baggage and wanted it to be 'the road', but instead i got something that stubbornly, gloriously insisted on being about people, love, art, and connection--the only things that can truly save us. a masterpiece.

There's something beautiful about taking an overused bleak setting but making art the main focus of the story instead of the usual tropes. It's a sad but beautiful story, well written and suspenseful until the very end. The first and last episodes can not leave anyone indifferent. They know how to pull heartstrings, it's all so… human, character driven, emotional, this show is an obvious labor of love and passion. All my expectations were subverted. I'm glad I stumbled upon it.

Not what I was expecting at all, not mired in the tropes of post apocalyptic fiction. Great characters, even the "villains" get character development

Although it's an apocalyptic setting which has its lows, they're balanced with strong highs. There is real growth and positive character development. It doesn't have a modern cliched downer ending. It tears down but then builds back up.

Intrigued at first, completely fell in it after two episodes, very original TV Show !

It is rare that a 10 episode TV series feels perfectly formed and complete, and yet feels like it breathes and lives beyond its short frame. Absolutely loved it!

Based on an amazing book, this manages to be an amazing show, the joyful post-apocalypse I needed to see, because it is about art, kindness, caring for one another, it is about catharsis and also is cathartic. The writing is so well structured, it looks gorgeous, the casting is perfect. It is a show that says survival is not enough, we must live.

A rare dystopian story that is not violent, disgusting and scary, but thanks to literature and art, it has become very tender and poetic. And that it is literature and art that can make everything beautiful even in such a world

Smacks of what a writers' workshop in some fucking New England farmhouse or something would think is amazing. I didn't buy almost any of the characters' motivations, reactions or dialogue, and the plot is basically "art & literature are super important and hope in a post-apocalyptic/uncertain future must be tied up in them" which yeah, sure, but that message gets so bluntly beaten over your head it's absurd. Most of my points go to the sheer effort involved in doing so.

Original storyline, but a bit empty execution. It starts very slow and messy, but starts getting interesting after a few episodes. Nevertheless, something felt missing the whole time. Nice time killer, but nothing more. It still manages to deliver the message about community and recovering very well.

Great mysterious atmosphere and acting. However, the show ends up not having much of a point -- once the mysteries are revealed, it reducessolely to being a character drama. Never end up caring that much about the characters.

The first episode is the most compelling opening to an apocalypse series I've seen yet, all thanks to Jeevan's awkward, yet dogmatic sense of morality. The Shakespeare dynamic was entertaining to a point. The ending conflict had some parts I could do without. Art, morality, dreams and desires. Through its characters this series explores what it means to be human, even after an apocalypse.

Cleverly baits its audience with the excitement of a dystopian catastrophe. But it turns the tables to reveal a very profound, sophisticated and simply beautiful musing on the power of art and representatin, its importance in today's utilitarian and materialistic society....and an incredibly powerful modern adaptation of Hamlet. Actually , it explains Hamlet to a modern audience. Masterful.

Riesce a mantenere i pregi del romanzo da cui è tratto (l'ambientazione originale e le atmosfere tra il poetico e l'onirico) aggiungendoci un po' di dinamismo e concretezza; qui rispetto al libro i personaggi sono molto più connessi tra loro e le storylines arrivano ad una conclusione. Qualche lungaggine di troppo ma nel complesso niente male.

Disappointed by this show. People seemed to love it, and there were definitely some great elements (e.g., loved all the scenes between young kirsten & jeevan). But most of it was just a bit off in execution. The actress that played adult kirsten really annoyed me. Also, the shakespeare of it all was rather extra. Ultimately I get that the show is about trauma, people & whatever, but the whole graphic novel/space person thing was a poorly deployed device for communicating a real point in my onion

I have changed my rating from an 8 to a 9 because over 2 years later, I still think about this show often.

I had high expectations for this show as it didn’t seem dysphoric, like one could expect as it is about the few people surviving an extremely deadly virus. But more and more I lost interest and gave up in the middle of the third episode. I must confess that I hate films that keep jumping back and forth, as one never gets really captured - especially when you have to follow eight characters back and forth through 4 time periods. So if you like that kind of series, you might enjoy this one.

Thematically, seems to be about the importance of community and culture to mourning and recovery. But the execution seems empty. Characters have connections they aren't aware of until they finally come together, but why? I think simply to play out genre convention. What exactly is supposed to be compelling about the titular comic book, even to a child in trauma? Not a single line or image from the book seems meaningful in any way. Why the constant Shakespeare, and *only* Shakespeare?

This is the worst TV show I've ever seen. The critics said it was "GREAT!" and that it starts as a slow burn but will reward you if you stick with it. They are LIARS! It starts out with loooong sloooow booooring episodes and ends with looooong sloooow boooring episodes. If you think the most important thing in the post-apocalypse would be live theatre, this is the show for you! It's a 10-hour Bill Shakespeare reach around.

Slow to ramp up for me, but at around episode 4 I got drawn in. What I really liked about this show is that it left out the dystopian trope of rival gangs of people trying to hurt or kill each other. Everyone (well, almost everyone) just tries to get along and survive.

good

OK, so far I can't say this is great, it's bordering on good, but I can say, there aren't a lot of post apocalyptic stories doing things this differently (or getting to familiar places in such strange manners). For me, that's kept me going. EDIT - the final episodes raised the score up. Good Storytelling overpowers a bit of meandering.