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Some very inspiring stories and a pretty amazing twist toward the end.

You can take what you want from this film and even though I'm not religious, I think the message is crucial: Fathers are incredibly important for us as individuals and as a society. With the relentless Leftist attacks on the family - and especially Fathers - it's awesome to see a well-made, Life-affirming film for a change.

An hour and 25 minutes of a slow, nasal, condescending, self-important woman fantasizing how she was "selected" to become some kind of UFO expert by "the government". She also claims to give the viewer the "truth" of what's gone on here on Earth ... and she basically regurgitates a few months' worth of high school "science" class factoids including how life on Earh formed (cough).

If you came to this looking for a genuine whistle-blower, you should know that it's all fiction - and very sloooow fiction at that. I watched it at 1.5X speed to get through it faster. It probably would have been easier to stomach without the amazingly annoying soundtrack ... like 80 minutes of someone running their fingernails down a chalkboard - but there you have it.

There are much better ways to spend your time and attention.

As an professional animator and artist, I can say that I really appreciated the various styles of animation in the series - varying from cutting edge to some pretty limited/stylized animation. A special shout out to Digic for their episode - some of the most impressive shading and simulation I've seen - just jaw-dropping stuff.

The stories are varied, but mostly predictable, and pretty much all center around violence of some kind. If you remember Heavy Metal magazine, well, you'll have a good feel for most of the stories. My biggest gripe with the series was the out of place and in-your-face gratuitous nudity, profanity, and gore. It made the series feel like a political/cultural (SJW) statement more than a series of *stories*. Yes, those elements have a specific place in specific stories - but most of these episodes felt like they started with an agenda and tried to wrap a story around it - even if it kept jarring the viewer out of their sense immersion.

I despise this kind of film-making - it's political, simplistic, shallow, and amateur - everything that will give this a very short shelf-life. What a waste of talent. C'mon guys - you're better than this!

8 stars for the technical aspects. -7 Stars for the stories and adolescent use of excessive SJW dog whistles and nudity/profanity. Given Netflix's pushing of all things culturally degrading, I'm not surprised - and you shouldn't be either.

What a waste of great potential.