Should you watch Foundation?
Who it’s good for, who it isn’t, and what’s in it. No ratings, no scores.
Foundation
Series · 2021
Follow a band of exiles on their monumental journey to save humanity and rebuild civilization amid the fall of the Galactic Empire.
The sides of Foundation
- A mathematician who predicts the fall of an empire
- Three clones of one emperor ruling in turn
- Exiles sent to the edge of the galaxy
Foundation is good for you if…
- you like huge ships, space elevators and planets on a vast scale.
- you like cloned emperors clinging to an empire that is ending.
- you like a story spread across centuries and planets.
Foundation is bad for you if…
- you lose track across centuries, planets and timelines.
- you need a plot that moves faster than a thousand-year plan.
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