It's loosely based on it. But it's not a thriller, it's a lot more complicated. It also really tries to push human culpability with these androids. Overall, it's up there with other top HBO programming. True Detective, Night Of and more of their serialized dramas like GoT and Sopranos. Overall, I'd highly recommend it to anyone. Especially people with Bill Joy like fears about the future.
So... Did everyone catch up yet? Watched the finale last night and it was crazy good.
I thought it was unpackaged tidily, maybe a bit too much. But HBO already gave them a season 2, and while they're a tad desperate for programming recently, nothing they have have been too bad. Anyway, Ford's sleight of hand was really interesting. I think it took a lot of the winds out of the sail though. I can't wait to see what happens in Samurai World though. Hopefully they don't have the reveries installed so we can do this entire journey over again, but in the Sengoku era.