Beautifying the Apocalypse
In films like Annihilation and Ex Machina, director Alex Garland knows how to make the end of the world look majestic. But his new show, Devs, gives a grace and dignity to the apocalypse that you won’t find in our own world.
Alex Garland is an auteur fulfilling a growing need. As Time magazine recently put it, Garland’s “ascendance from buzzy young author to A-list filmmaker has coincided with an intensifying ambient sense that we’re living in the End Times.” As we navigate our way through the apocalypse, there’s no doubt we crave media that reflects that […]
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