Devs(2020)

This series is suggested for ages 13+ and may contain suspenseful themes. Biblical themes explored include {"reference":"Isaiah 46:10","theme":"Knowing the end from the beginning","description":"The Devs quantum computer's capacity to reconstruct any past moment and predict any future one is the technological appropriation of divine omniscience — the attribute Isaiah describes as unique to God. Forest's project is the Promethean attempt to acquire divine foreknowledge through computation."}, {"reference":"Revelation 21:4","theme":"No more death or grief","description":"Forest's virtual reconstruction of his daughter's last happy moment — the secular heaven he creates — is a technological attempt to fulfill John's vision: the abolition of death, of grief, of crying. The project is theological in its motivation even when secular in its mechanism."}, {"reference":"Ecclesiastes 3:1-8","theme":"A time for everything","description":"The show's determinism — the philosophical position that each moment is exactly what it must be, that the universe has a structure which cannot be otherwise — echoes Qohelet's meditation on appointed times: a season for everything, a time for every matter under heaven."}, {"reference":"Romans 8:29","theme":"Foreknowledge and predestination","description":"Paul's theology of divine foreknowledge — God's knowledge of persons before their choices — raises the same philosophical questions the show explores: if foreknowledge is real, in what sense are choices free? The show is a philosophical thriller about this theological problem."}. We recommend parents review content before watching with younger children.