For a show with a forward-looking title, Fox's new drama NEXT arrives this week feeling unexpectedly retro. Our unsteady current moment has provided plenty of cause for sleepless nights.
It isn't that malevolent artificial intelligence has ceased to be a cause for concern, but on my own list of personal nightmare fodder, it has fallen comfortably behind such preoccupations as a global pandemic, ongoing inequities in the justice system, a ticking clock on climate change, a contentious presidential election and the inevitable comeback of the murder wasps.
It's bizarre, but even since I first watched the NEXT pilot back in January (critics have now gotten five episodes of what is being called an "event series"), NEXT has transitioned from.
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