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Foundation on Apple TV Plus won't stick to the books, and that's good.This Foundation could save the galaxy - if suicide bombers, a looming interplanetary war and an enigmatic monolith don't get in the way. Junior mathematics prodigy Gaal, played by fresh-faced Lou Llobell, is unwittingly caught up in the affair, and next thing you know she's on a starship to the very edge of the galaxy to establish a new colony based on Seldon's teachings. Seldon has crunched the numbers and come up with a formula proving the interstellar status quo will crumble into savagery, which is obviously bad news for haughty emperor Cleon, played with graceful majesty by Pace from Guardians of the Galaxy and Halt and Catch Fire.Īutocratic Cleon is minded to shoot the messenger and execute Hard before his doomsaying theories, dubbed psychohistory, infect the people. He's played by Harris, star of Chernobyl, Mad Men and The Terror, so you know he's got some gravitas. On the imperial world of Trantor, the mathematician and martyr (and maybe murderer) Hari Seldon realizes the galactic empire is dying.
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It's filled with austere arguments, unstated agendas and silhouetted sex scenes, unfolding with a slow-burning ponderousness over its leisurely run of episodes.įoundation is full of atmospheric cinematography. Like Peacock's Brave New World, HBO Max's Raised By Wolves, Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale and Apple's Jason Momoa-starring See, Foundation is a dense, serious drama with a large cast of poker-faced characters having a thoroughly awful time in a detailed but unsettling fantasy world. From its glitter-bomb opening titles to bold stripes of color across decor and costumes, to elegant starships framing glittering worlds, to atmospheric glowing lighting in every scene, Foundation is frequently a treat to look at.įoundation is still one of the many recent Thrones clones aimed squarely at adults. Foundation is also pleasingly more colorful than most post-Thrones sci-fi - well, compared with the monochromatic gray 'n' beige Dune, anyway. The space travel, for example, is lengthy and dangerous and looks very different from the whooshing stars of Star Wars and Star Trek. It looks great, for a start, with obvious thought put into differentiating itself from the familiar conventions of the sci-fi genre. You got this.įoundation on Apple TV Plus visits many strange new worlds. This shot seems to say: You're watching a space opera. And Foundation opens with a shot of a zooming landspeeder so Star Wars-esque it must surely be deliberate. Foundation is filled with interesting stuff and big ideas, but it could present them in a more accessible way.ĭon't worry though: If you can handle the million different houses of Game of Thrones you can handle this. Look, there's dense world-building that rewards viewers' attention, and there's presenting a story in a way that's just confusing. It flashes back 35 years, then a flashback rewinds 400 years, then another goes 17 years forward. So, of course, the show opens with a voiceover, followed by onscreen captions telling you the names of three planets in just the first eight minutes.
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17.īeginning as a series of short stories in 1942 and expanding to a lengthy series of novels, prequels and sequels, Foundation is a vast cosmic saga.
Which means you might need to give it a chance beyond the first two episodes streaming now on Apple TV Plus, followed by a new weekly installment every Friday until the 10-episode season ends on Nov. Starring Lee Pace and Jared Harris, this glossy sci-fi epic hardly moves at the speed of light. But before that, Apple TV Plus brings Isaac Asimov's weighty Foundation saga to the small screen. 22 Brave New World already came out and Wheel of Time is still to come. The much-vaunted Dune movie from Denis Villeneuve is in theaters and on HBO Max Oct. It's a great time for high-minded fantasy classics you haven't read (or maybe you have, in which case you may be ambivalent about your favorite books coming to the screen).
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