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In the filmsEx MachinaandAnnihilation, writer-director Alex Garland established his flair for psychologically intense, intellectually engaging science fiction.

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Devscomes with all the hallmarks of an Alex Garland story.

Many of the conversations unfold in low tones and curt, cryptic phrases.

(A sample exchange: Whats inside?

Everything is inside.)

WatchingDevscan be an almost hypnotic experience.

But the series takes its time to do all that, and things get pretty confusing along the way.

But Offerman lends him an authority that has a gentleness buried within it.

The imagery in the series is also arresting.