It's a 3-part mini-series on Syfy of Arthur C. Clarke's novel. Aliens have arrived on earth. They compel worldwide peace and a new world order while keeping their identity a secret. Ricky Stormgren (Mike Vogel) is taken onto the spaceship to become the human liaison to Karellen, the alien Supervisor for Earth. Others more concerned call them the Overlords. Finally Karellen reveals himself to be a Satan lookalike. The second part has human submitting to a Golden Age of carefree living. The third part has the world taking strange turns.
Part of the problem is the epic scale of the story. It is so vast with ideas so big that it doesn't always feel human size. The characters are sometimes overwhelmed. Any narrative is subjugated by the need to hit the plot points. There is a simplification of human nature in this story which leaves this world feeling a bit fake. It still has the interesting ideas and it is executed with competence.
Part of the problem is the epic scale of the story. It is so vast with ideas so big that it doesn't always feel human size. The characters are sometimes overwhelmed. Any narrative is subjugated by the need to hit the plot points. There is a simplification of human nature in this story which leaves this world feeling a bit fake. It still has the interesting ideas and it is executed with competence.