Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams is a series of one-off worlds. Amazon's pilot episode called Real Life centers around 2 different somewhat perfect lives. One is that of a billionaire played by Terrance Howard, the other is a supercop played by Anna Paquin. Both are using virtual reality to escape into the other's world. Neither the main characters nor the audience can tell which is real. You won't find out until the very end, and then, it feels hollow somehow.
The episode spent far to much time world building and nowhere close to enough time building the characters for me to care about the twist which was that both protagonists went crazy.
I won't even tell you how much better Game of Thrones is. What I will say is that Hollywood needs to step up their game. This thing was flogged everywhere. I thought it was going to be worth watching at least. God, I was wrong.
I'm not linking to this. Save yourself.

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