Next is about tech billionaire Paul LeBlanc (Mad Men's John Slattery) and FBI agent Shea Salazar (Fernanda Andrade) trying to stop the dangerous sentient AI program neXt.
I remember seeing the first trailer for this in approximately the summer of 2019. However, there was no word of it come Fall schedule, nor Winter. The fact that it ended up coming out this fall as a schedule filler due to COVID makes me believe that Fox originally intended to dump this in the summer. Considering, that this was cancelled after three episodes, it makes me see why the powers-that-be weren't confident in this. I admit that this is no great work, but it was decent and kept my interest till the end.
I think that the biggest issue with the show is that it doesn't bring anything new to the table. The whole AI goes rogue story has been done to death. Plus, neXt is only supplied with some really basic, unsatisfying answers for why it wants to wipe out humanity. But, it is a competently made show, and to be fair, some of the stuff neXt does can be fairly creative.
The cast is good. Slattery is the best part. Yeah, he's playing a cookie-cutter egotistical, anti-social genius, but he gives it his all.
If you like these kind of shows, then yeah, I would recommend this. Like I said, it's just alright, but there's nothing wrong with that if you want to spend some time. (Though this got cancelled, the final episode doesn't end on a cliffhanger, so you won't feel cheated out of your time.)
Thanks for the review, agree with most of it after just having finished the show. But I would more likely give it 6/10, due to the sometimes bad writing: somewhat flat characters, and (at times) not so convincing dialogue.
ReplyDeleteAnd there is actually a cliffhanger, in the very last frame, if you watch closely.
Thanks! At the time I was rating based on the grading scale (7= C), in retrospect it probably would’ve got a 6 or 5.5.
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