re: Devs - FX/HBO Series from Alex Garland

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well, lily and forest are also infinite simulations. they just have their "data" more up to date. i think the show def should have shown some more glimpses of the "bad" realities possible at the end, to drive home the multiverse stuff.

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Right, but more up to date data means they remember everything that happened prior, and that they are in a simulation to being with, and that his wife and daughter aren't his wife and daughter and Lily knows Jamie isn't Jamie

That's where it differs from San Junipero where the two lovers went together and knew where they were, happily ever infinitely.

Forest and Lily have the burden of knowing everything and everyone is fake, rather than themselves, and their actual significant others are mere copies, with their memory not as up to date, essentially making them NPCs

It's not a "good ending" like it seems to be on the surface IMO

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Forest and Lily have the burden of knowing everything and everyone is fake, rather than themselves,

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forest and lily have the burden of knowing they had died and are now simulations. (could have always been unaware simulations, but that discussion could go on forever with no definitive conclusion, by design.)

i agree, its not 1:1 w/ san junipero, but i dont think its all that negative an ending. the Forest we see at the end gets what he wanted, though he had already been confronted with the fact it was through a different means than he intended.

for lily, in that simulation, she gets a another chance to repair her relationship with Jamie and move on, or do whatever, better than being dead imo. but with her, thats gonna be far more subjective i suppose.

Just finished this over the weekend, awesome show. The production value is top notch. That song to open and end episode 2 is catchy. The overall score of this show helped take it to another level.