Cyberpunk Edgerunners is a bold adaption of its source material that gets both a lot right and wrong in it’s anarchic ten episodes.
It looks and sounds amazing with a future tinged palette layering neon yellows over the more dour colours you might associate with dystopian cyberpunk narratives.
The city is a busy and chaotic place full of background detail and made to feel claustrophobic through a camera that won’t get out of close up. It would have really benefitted from a few shots further back at times as it sways from keeping you in the detail of the gruesome action to the Michael Bay realms of ‘what is actually going on’ a little too often with the world flying by at 150mph.
Characters are interesting, though I felt all are substantially underwritten except for our lead with most reduced down to a simple characteristic and signature piece of chrome (maybe that’s the point?). Even Lucy feels like an underbaked starry eyed doomed lover by the end.
The ten episodes do just about hold together though, despite Episode 6 wrecking the pacing and making much of what has come before somewhat irrelevant. Still, I’m glad it exists and hopefully there will be more to come. 10% more focus next time and it’ll be a standout show.
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