Before HotD, Mysaria Actress Starred in This Sci-Fi Gem From Civil War Creator

If you watch House of the Dragon, you know Mysaria, nicknamed the White Worm, a powerful informant who was once a slave, sex worker, and lover of Daemon Targaryen. This character has endeared herself to viewers not only because she is one of the few characters to side with the common people, but also because of the actress, Sonoya Mizuno, who played the role brilliantly.

Sonoya Mizuno's career is clearly at its peak – not only has she starred in the most high-profile TV project of recent years, but also starred in Civil War, an Alex Garland film that recently hit theaters and received much praise from viewers and critics.

But even before Civil War, Sonoya starred in a series by the same director titled Devs, and this is a project that any fan of a mix of sci-fi and philosophical reflection should check out.

What is Devs About?

Sergei and Lily are a couple working at Amaya, a company specializing in quantum computing. Lily works in encryption, and Sergei, along with two colleagues, is writing a program that can predict the behavior of the simplest organisms.

After presenting the program to the head of Amaya, Forest, the man is invited to the top-secret department of developers. Sergei agrees, but the developments scare him, he escapes, but gets killed. Lily does not believe the suicide version that Forest told her and decides to conduct her own investigation.

Devs is a Project from One of the Greatest Sci-Fi Masters of Our Time

Alex Garland is a great master of science fiction, and in this series he develops the topics that interested him in his two previous works – Ex Machina and Annihilation. Now, however, he is not so much interested in the question of human will and humanity in general, but in determinism.

Thanks to a series of strange plot twists, Garland creates a unique story that makes the viewer either doubt the predetermination of events or become an ardent fan of this theory.

However, the director never indulges in abstruse dialogues in which the characters exchange incomprehensible scientific remarks: Devs is an absolutely understandable, but at the same time original and deep statement about human destiny.