Based on Dan Simmons» 2007 novel, David Kajganich and Soo Hugh's 10 - episode nightmare — which premiered last night, and is intended as the potential first installment of an anthology series — is a work of harrowing historical
fiction, one in which supernatural menace looms large over the proceedings, and yet is ultimately less threatening — or
terrifying —
than man himself.
Technically and dramatically much weaker
than most slick science -
fiction films, Soylent Green is still more realistic on one
terrifying point: the ecology will deteriorate, through misuse and overuse of plant and animal life as well as overpopulation, much sooner
than human technology and architecture will advance to accommodate it and create the oppressive - but - neat world of domes, interplanetary travel and multi-leveled cities that characterize most movies of the s.f. genre.