I'm not given to hyperbole and most of my comments on movies and TV shows tend to be critical; not because I'm hard to please, but because I think audiences deserve better than what is often served up.

Honestly, when I started watching this the red flags went up straight away. The post apocalyptic background puts it into cliché territory; the cinematography is quirky; and omg- a non linear narrative. And for a very long time it is impossible to know what is going on and who is connected to whom. The signs weren't good.

So even up to the halfway mark of the series I'm frustrated and a bit annoyed. And then it happened. Firstly, it dawned on me that the lines artfully weave in and out of ambiguity. And the actors read these beats perfectly. The pauses, the second glances, the flickering transition of emotion. All exactly on the mark. And then the characters start to make sense in their relationships to each other. This is one of those rare examples where the disrupted narrative is justified. The payoff is real.

And the multi layered writing! There is so much thought in this that it is nothing short of astonishing.

I could go on, but the work speaks for itself. Imo, this is easily on the the best things ever made for television.