I really recommend going into this blind!

Flanagan’s adaptation caught me off guard in a good way. The first act feels like a quiet doomsday film, grounded and eerie in how normal everything tries to stay. That slow collapse, the tech reliance, the existential dread—it’s all there, but it’s just the beginning.

What follows is a series of tonal shifts that shouldn’t work but totally do. Each act feels like its own short story, but they build into something deeply…