Devs fits right in with Garland's themes and style, and I love his work. I find cohesive, thoughtful limited series to be very enjoyable as they don't get repetitive or outstay their welcome as some shows can but have time to explore their characters and themes in considerable depth. Devs is squarely focused on determinism and the implications of perfect information about the predetermined future. Even more than Annihilation, Devs is more of an intellectual show that is filled with tension and interesting ideas than a show with an emotional hook. I don't know how much I like the climactic choice of [spoiler] Lily throwing the gun and breaking the perfect prediction, and that's treated as this crazy thing. If the model is perfect and is this world and not a many worlds prediction, then that shouldn't be possible. If the prediction was simply from a parallel world, then that should've happened earlier in some of the predictions Forrest and Katie watched, and there would be no reason for that to ruin the system. It's not a deal breaker but wasn't quite as satisfying as I was hoping. I do quite like the ending of them dying and being in a simulation, though. [/spoiler] I'm definitely happy I watched it for the way it made me wrestle with the implications of determinism and am eager to see more content from Garland.