DEVS
Hulu, 3:00 a.m. ET
This is the penultimate episode of this enticing, imaginative FX on Hulu miniseries – and it’s the episode when the Devs team cracks its project goal, and devises a way to tap into and witness the time stream of our collective history. The implications are astounding – and writer-director Alex Garland makes the most of them. The music in this series, and this episode, is singularly evocative and eerie. So are the images. And the thoughts, the ideas, are haunting. In one scene, Nick Offerman’s Forest, the architect of this high-tech time-eavesdropping project, looks at early homo sapiens painting on cave walls in France, fast-forwards 5,000 years to see their descendants, in the same cave, painting similar images. He marvels not at the technology allowing him to witness that, but at the slow pace of evolutionary change. “How could nothing have changed in so much time?” he asks. “When I was a kid, the world changed every few years. These days, it changes every few months. Sometimes every few hours.” And boy, if hearing those words, at this exact moment in our time, doesn’t give you the creeps – then you’re all creeped out.