Join 6,437 readers in helping fund MetaFilter. The students there (who dress like The Jetsons, unlike Foster and her mother’s loose, organic hair and clothes), learn from gamified, hologram-driven tech that looks and feels like the oft-discussed classroom of the future. Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams, or simply Electric Dreams, is a science fiction television anthology series based on the works of Philip K. Dick. I know that PKDs stories have been done and redone countless times, but I really don't think adapting. In Safe And Sound, writers Kalen Egan and Travis Sentell have taken the same central theme but exploded the tight focus of PKD’s original (about a schoolboy who desperately covets a high-tech nuclear bomb shelter his family can’t afford) to build an entire future world, complete with an America that’s not only figuratively but literally divided along a ‘Rift’, and Big Tech corporations selling whizzy new gadgets. The school attended by sixteen-year-old Foster Lee (Annalise Basso), a fresh arrival from one of the non-compliant, low-tech ‘Bubbles’ formed after ‘The Reformation’, is plausibly detailed. Harder still is the idea of a mass conspiracy between government and big tech cooked up to make the populace happy little consumers. It was very creepy, and straight-up disturbing in a couple of scenes.

Lead Annalise Basso does a great job carrying most of the story and all of its emotion on her shoulders.

As a lonely teenager, fitting in can seem more important than holding up principles. At first, only the child sees the difference and has to recruit other children to help him reveal the truth.

Okay, the weird thing about Amazon for this US viewer is that even though the episodes are numbered differently from the Channel 4 order, the auto play has been serving the episodes up to me in the Channel 4 order. Sign-up deadline Oct 28 for Mefi's annual secret Gift Swap!

After a day at home, things get strange. From Talk Soup to Auto Focus, I've always thought highly of Kinnear, and he does not disappoint in this episode. Wikipedia currently lists this as episode 10, the (currently) very short Wikipedia article on the short story. @Louisa_Mellor, Louisa Mellor is the Den of Geek UK TV Editor. A page for describing Recap: Philip K Dicks Electric Dreams S 1 E 10 The Father Thing. Watch Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams - Season 1, Episode 10 - The Father Thing: A young boy discovers that his father Matthew has been replaced by an alien, and he's not the only one.

Safe And Sound turns complex topics (radicalisation, the reach of state-sponsored surveillance tech and reality-monopolising media) into thriller fodder.

Things are revealed quickly and then it's done. Also, the music was badass. But in the TV version, you see it "with your own eyes" and quite early on, so there is little mystery or suspense. If the episode’s themes—school security, people and companies who profit from demonising the other and sowing seeds of paranoia—didn’t feel so depressingly relevant to our time, perhaps the superficiality of their treatment here wouldn’t feel this potentially harmful. Phillip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams Recap: Daddy Issues by Film Crit Hulk for Vulture On the surface, “Father Thing” seems headed for a somewhat Disney-esque father-son story, but then takes a quick turn toward the pulp and pomp of an Amblin-lite adventure wherein a young boy named Charlie (Jack Gore) thinks his dad (Greg Kinnear!) If this were to be expanded into a continuing story, it’d be best suited to a Hunger Games-style dystopian tale of a teenage girl dismantling the insidious Big Tech machine inside which she and her generation is trapped. Den of Geek

Kids from non-conformist backgrounds often want to assimilate rather than rebel against the same things as their parents.

The complexity and detail put into features like the Dex (wearable tracking tech with multiple applications) grounds viewers in territory that’s perfect sci-fi: familiar and unfamiliar at the same time. The Father-Thing" is a 1954 science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick.

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One night, while camping out, they see glowing orbs slowly falling from the sky, which the radio news reports are meteoroids. The generally terrific Maura Tierney too, does what she can with a limited rant-exposition role as Foster’s politician mother, who spends almost all of the episode raging against the machine (nice Sarah Connor sunglasses, by the way). The story, told through third-person narration but focusing on the child, concerns the replacement of a boy's father with a replicated version. The world is under attack from aliens. The Father Thing is kinda dated and lame plot-wise, but I feel the execution was superb.

.cls-2{mix-blend-mode:screen}.cls-3{fill:none;stroke:red;stroke-miterlimit:10;stroke-width:4px}.cls-4{fill:red}, The penultimate Electric Dreams episode builds a detailed sci-fi world, but around oversimplified themes. If this represents the floor for Electric Dreams, then I'd be happy to keep watching for years.

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http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/PhilipKDicksElectricDreamsS1E10TheFatherThing. That complexity and detail, however, isn’t quite matched by Safe And Sound’s simplistic take on its subject matter – terrorism, fake news and ‘false flag’ attacks. Feed the population’s paranoia and they’ll pay handsomely for their safety – or for the illusion thereof.

A recap of ‘Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams’ season 1 episode 8 starring Jack Reynor, Benedict Wong, and Geraldine Chaplin. When reading the story, you are not exactly sure how to interpret what happened, if the boy really saw what he thought he saw, which gives a little more mystery and suspense to the story.

FanFare is a pop culture discussion site for TV, movies, podcasts, and books. The idea of Foster being tricked so easily into believing her mother was a terrorist who planned to sacrifice her child for her political goals is just too hard a sell. So I did start with “The Hood Maker” and end with “The Father-Thing,” even though Amazon’s order looks preferable. Overall, Safe And Sound was a well-acted, well-directed sci-fi thriller with sadly never-more-apt themes, but perhaps lacking in the complexity their treatment deserved. this almost felt like a backdoor pilot.

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