The Worst: Foundation
They said Isaac Asimov’s renowned, seminal science fiction masterpiece couldn’t be filmed… and Apple TV didn’t bother to try. The show understandably narrowed the focus of the centuries-long epic to a single generation with a handful of characters—the most notable being the essentially new, repeatedly cloned Emperor Cleon (Lee Pace), to give the show a stable antagonist—but the Foundation books’ emphasis on science and social change was mostly tossed aside for plodding storylines, unearned twists, and whiz-bang action.
