The Tone
Hello Tomorrow! pushes an upbeat view of a futuristic past (the first episode is titled “Your Brighter Tomorrow, Today”) that’s so glossy you instantly know there’s more going on. In an early scene, we see a woman get crushed by a driverless “Amazing Personal Products” delivery van (a not-so-subtle dig at Amazon) that then zooms away, seemingly having no way of knowing it’s just mangled a human being. That feeling—an undercurrent of anxiety—continues throughout. It’s part Cold War-era paranoia, part there-are-too-many-robots unease, and part “oh my god I am a fraud” personal terror that’s shared by nearly all the characters.
