It's no surprise that a series like this has gotten negative reviews, in the case of the English newspapers it's more of a compliment, and as for the average audience, well the intellectual bar is pretty low, so unless Michael Sheen is willing to do a puppets version for dummies, I think it's just the nature taking its course. There are two things that amazed me instead, namely realizing how many people consider the scenario of this story completely unrealistic, despite everything that happens in the world every day, economic crises, wars, pandemics, terrorisms, natural disasters and so on, and that a white Western man has managed to convey so well the sense of absolute precariousness and fragility of our normality, the absurdity and madness of events that can change your life at any moment, without paternalism, without frills. Maybe it's his good Welsh blood, maybe his work in the humanitarian field, but this says a lot about Sheen's artistic and human sensitivity. I liked also the tragicomic touch, and this kind of surreal irony that blinks at you. The scene with the masks and the crazy penguin and giant hotdog will always remain in my heart.
Super-recommended.
Super-recommended.