Customer Reviews

Sleeping in Light

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Fascinating, sometimes maddening mix of wonderful and silly,
intelligent and dumb, insightful and obvious.

At it's best it's the 'Wire' of science fiction, challenging
'Battlestar Galactica' for intelligence and emotional depth.

The show is also full of allusions; Shakespeare, the Bible, Buddhism,
King Arthur, the Koran. Certainly the writing is grounded in pretty
heady stuff.

Season 5 has its bumps up and down, but in the end I was quite moved by its
conclusion, and will miss this series, with it's willingness to allow tragedy
to befall characters we like, and an acceptance of the complexities of
politics and life.

I wish it was even more consistently great, but - in the end - it was
more than good enough.

The entire series was written by one person. It's a contiguous story from beginning to end. It is very compelling if you get into the overall story! I loved this series.