Lily and her boyfriend Sergei work at Amaya, a company involved in quantum computing. Forest, the company's CEO invites Sergei to join 'Devs' the companies secretive research department. He never returns from his first day working there... CCTV shows him departing then returning later and setting himself on fire. Lily can't believe that he killed himself and starts trying to uncover the truth. She learns things about Sergei she never imagined and later realises she is in danger too. Meanwhile we see what is going on within Devs and learn just how powerful it is with implications that would change the opinions on the very nature of existence.
I really enjoyed this series; it raised lots of interesting ideas and kept me gripped from start to finish. There may be no mystery about what really happened to Sergei, the audience is shown what really happened, but that didn't make Lily's search for the truth any less interesting. The scenes inside Devs were just as interesting; the site is impressively designed and even though many of the scenes moved at a deliberately glacial pace I was never bored. Much of what we see is clearly meant to be symbolic; Forest may state that he knows there is no God or higher power but there is frequent religious imagery. I know a lot of reviewers didn't like the casting but it worked for me; Nick Offerman stood out as the morally ambiguous Forest; Sonoya Mizuno may not be a typical lead but for me she worked as Lily Chan; Cailee Spaeny's casting as Lyndon was most interesting as a young woman playing a boy created further ambiguity. Overall I'd say that this won't be for everybody but it really worked for me; I liked the ideas, the look and the way the story was ultimately resolved.
I really enjoyed this series; it raised lots of interesting ideas and kept me gripped from start to finish. There may be no mystery about what really happened to Sergei, the audience is shown what really happened, but that didn't make Lily's search for the truth any less interesting. The scenes inside Devs were just as interesting; the site is impressively designed and even though many of the scenes moved at a deliberately glacial pace I was never bored. Much of what we see is clearly meant to be symbolic; Forest may state that he knows there is no God or higher power but there is frequent religious imagery. I know a lot of reviewers didn't like the casting but it worked for me; Nick Offerman stood out as the morally ambiguous Forest; Sonoya Mizuno may not be a typical lead but for me she worked as Lily Chan; Cailee Spaeny's casting as Lyndon was most interesting as a young woman playing a boy created further ambiguity. Overall I'd say that this won't be for everybody but it really worked for me; I liked the ideas, the look and the way the story was ultimately resolved.