Author: Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy / Source: WIRED

Dimension 404 on Hulu is a science fiction anthology show in the tradition of The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits. TV writer Andrea Kail loved the fifth episode, “Bob,” about a (literal) giant brain who works for the National Security Agency.
“I thought this was one of the best things I’ve seen in a long time,” Kail says in Episode 347 of the Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast. “I thought it was incredibly good filmmaking, and incredibly great writing and acting. There was nothing about it I didn’t love.”

But perhaps the strongest episode of Dimension 404 is “Impulse,” about an aspiring pro gamer who experiences memory loss after taking a performance-enhancing drug. Science fiction author Tom Gerencer found the episode to be a powerful metaphor for growing up.
“My favorite stories are like this, basically hyperbole but meticulously imagined, and really funny and brutal,” he says. “You could actually make this the formula for any good science fiction story. Just take a real-life situation, look at the struggle that’s at the bottom of it, and then exaggerate it into an absurdist realm, but make the details and the story logic so vivid that it’s indistinguishable from reality. I thought it was absolutely brilliant.”
The show isn’t perfect, however, and often fails to create fictional worlds with a strong sense of reality. Science fiction author Anthony Ha notes that this is especially true of the third episode, “Chronos,” which presents a particularly goofy take on time travel. “In general this is a very hand-wavey show,” he says, “and ‘Chronos’ is the most hand-wavey of the episodes.”
But overall Dimension 404 is certainly strong enough to warrant a second season. Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy host David Barr Kirtley loves the variety and constant surprises of a good anthology show, and is always on the lookout for more of them.
“I totally think they should do more anthology shows where they adapt classic science fiction stories by authors like Robert Sheckley,” he says. “In my ideal world, you would just turn on TV and it would…
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