The Genetic Dynasty storyline is entirely original and it’s easily the best part of the show, one of my favorite sci-fi concepts ever. Lee Pace is just so fucking good as Empire in all seasons. Demrezel is also right up there as the best character in the show.
Just can’t get enough of this.
Season 3 is streaming rn and it’s amazing so far. Absolutely phenomenal performances from Lee Pace and Laura Birn. I highly recommend watching it if you like sci-fi.
It absolutely could be interesting TV, but under the capitalist organisation of the creative industries, certain ideas become structurally unimaginable.
Think about pitching a story where a Marxist mass is the hero to the average American television executive/sex-pest. You’d be thrown out of the room. That executive doesn’t give a shit about making “interesting” television.