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velk said:
The similarities are mostly superficial - the Substance is about cloning and consciousness transfer, where this one is about a virus that makes you younger and hotter ( metaphorically and literally ).

The bad guy of the Substance is the main character's vanity and self-loathing, and the bad guy of this one is a cackling cartoon villain who orders people killed while getting a blowjob on his yacht.

The series wasn't bad - interesting enough for me to watch the first 3 episodes and be interested in where it is going. The steel eyepatch hitman is a bit much though.

I can't help but feel that this series was filmed with boobs and then told to cut them out afterwards - there's a surprisingly large amount of boob related plot that really makes no sense or impact with never seeing them.
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I watched the first episode and the effects are really solid. This comes across like the X Files meets the Substance. I'm taking a wild guess and the virus is vampirism or something. Probably wrong but that's what I think based on first episode.
 
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I"m up to ep 5 where it sort of tells you the origin of it. This is worth a watch just for how wild it is. One thing that seems weird is

I found the unaltered FBI lady way hotter than the ' beauty' copy

but that's just me.
 
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Chanur said:
Yeah. She was "Hollywood" ugly. Well before the DEI anyway.
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I thought she just looked british. The beauty version wasn't better looking, just younger. I thought the older one was skinnier/in better shape too, when she changed the beauty version was pretty thick by comparison.
 
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Also in the thinks she looked better before crowd. I had to look up her creds, definitely had seen her before and it was making my brain itch. She was in the Prestige, which i've seen a few times and enjoyed. So it's probably that. Also Iron Man 3 (lol no) and a couple modern Godzilla movies.
 
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If youre considering watching this, don't.

If you've only watched a few episodes, stop now.

I don't know how I didn't see the tranny shit coming but yeah, in the end, its tranny dickchopper "I'm a real woman" shit. Don't watch unless thats your thing.
 
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Aldarion said:
If youre considering watching this, don't.

If you've only watched a few episodes, stop now.

I don't know how I didn't see the tranny shit coming but yeah, in the end, its tranny dickchopper "I'm a real woman" shit. Don't watch unless thats your thing.
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The last episode I watched it changed that dude into a chick then the Assassin killed the guy who gave it to them. Did they expand on that? I figured it was a throwaway character to show the virus doesn't work the way we think it does.
 
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Juvarisx said:
The last episode I watched it changed that dude into a chick then the Assassin killed the guy who gave it to them. Did they expand on that? I figured it was a throwaway character to show the virus doesn't work the way we think it does.
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The dude in a dress got infected and it changed him into a woman because Trans Women Are Real Women.

I don't know if theres ever been a more overt preaching of the trans message in anything I've ever had the misfortune to watch.

I don't know if it was intended as the finale but I will definitely be interpreting it that way.
 
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Aldarion said:
The dude in a dress got infected and it changed him into a woman because Trans Women Are Real Women.

I don't know if theres ever been a more overt preaching of the trans message in anything I've ever had the misfortune to watch.

I don't know if it was intended as the finale but I will definitely be interpreting it that way.
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Got it, i took it as the virus makes you look how you want to look ideally, but I can see what you are saying. I guess it would be unlikely they would kill that character since it was two years prior. I find the show strange enough to finish it, looking at imdb Lux Pascal is only credited in the one episode so I dont think you will see the trans character again.
 
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I'm just watching it for all the wild shit. That and there is very little else to watch that's new right now.
 
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