AMC's animated series "Pantheon" is relevant to our interests

post by Ben Smith (ben-smith) · 2022-10-10T05:59:23.925Z · LW · GW · 3 comments

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comment by Nanda Ale · 2022-10-10T08:51:55.495Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

I strongly echo this recommendation. This is clearly a show written by an author familiar with the concepts of takeoffs, alignment, etc. Not in a subtle or simply thematic way, the characters explicitly talk about these topics using those same terms. (Though it takes a few episodes.)

The full first episode is on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rht4XTs2Sw

And for those outside the US, possibly: https://www.hidive.com/stream/pantheon/s01e001

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comment by Richard_Kennaway · 2022-10-10T11:15:15.931Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

And for those outside the US, possibly

But not in the UK, as yet. "Your region is not supported at this time — please check back later."

On the other hand, for those who don't care to watch TV at all, the plot summaries are available on Wikipedia, where I also see that the series is based on some short stories by Ken Liu, written for a series of anthologies of stories on apocalyptic themes.

comment by CraigMichael · 2022-10-10T07:02:23.829Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

I suppose this is a reason to keep my AMC+ subscription. Better Call Saul was pretty good, but I didn’t use it for anything else.