[Pazuzu]

I suffered through 2 episodes of Electric Dreams, and won't bother with the rest. How can you take a bottle storyline, which was 15 pages originally, and turn it into an hour long political social commentary? I'm actually a bit surprised that you liked them red-beard.

Autofac? How can they do such injustice to a simple story?
Also, looking at the episode list, 90% of them were stories that were not good to begin with, or very obscure. Considering the list of PKD stories that are (a) excellent, (b) not already movies, and (c) frighteningly contemporary, and they ignored almost all of them? "Pay for the Printer" would be a scathing examination of current technology. "The Mold of Yancy" ? Perfect today. "The Days of Perky Pat"? You can see that same "delusional life is more important than real life" every day around us.

The power of PKD is that his short stories in 1956 are COMING TRUE. Why add to them, they are horrifying just as they are!


Now, I will say, it appears that most of the stories in Electric Dreams are from the first half of his short story career, while I seem to prefer the second half. Maybe they'll do a second season with some more "contemporary" stories.

AS a final comment, I still want to see a 3-4 hour miniseries version of "The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath". I think that we are at a point when something like Netflix could throw enough money and effort into that...the story is just DYING for a long form, fully fleshed out movie.