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Browse - Most popular shows featuring: ethical dilemmax
Westworld
Westworld is a dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin. Set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, it explores a world in which every human appetite, no matter how noble or depraved, can be indulged.
This is a story of amusement and artificial consciousness in the near future, based on the 1973 movie.
Severance
A data analyst who heads up a team of pencil-pushers, each of whom has had their memories surgically split between work and home life, is suddenly alarmed when a colleague goes missing and he begins to realize that the company that he works for is very dangerous.
Black Mirror
A hybrid of The Twilight Zone and Tales of the Unexpected, this three-part series is made up of three standalone episodes that offer a suspenseful and satirical look at the paranoia surrounding modern technology.
Rick and Morty
Rick and Morty is a hilarious animated show that follows the adventures of an eccentric scientist and his easily influenced grandson.
Together, they travel through different dimensions and alternate universes, encountering strange beings and getting into all sorts of trouble.
Better Call Saul
This is the Breaking Bad spinoff series based on the show's popular Saul Goodman character. It's a one-hour prequel that's focusing on the evolution of the popular Saul Goodman character before he ever became Walter White's lawyer.
Star Trek: Discovery
Alex Kurtzman, co-writer and producer of 2009's "Star Trek" and sequel "Star Trek Into Darkness," will executive produce the series alongside Heather Kadin, with whom Kurtzman executive produces on CBS dramas "Scorpion" and "Limitless." The updated series will introduce new characters "seeking imaginative new worlds and new civilizations, while exploring the dramatic contemporary themes that have been a signature of the franchise since its inception in 1966," reads the press release.
3 Body Problem
The story of humanity's first contact with an alien civilization inspired by Liu Cixin's renowned novel.
Star Trek: Picard
The series is set 18 years after Jean-Luc Picard's last appearance in Star Trek: Nemesis (2002) and finds the character deeply affected by the destruction of Romulus as depicted in the film Star Trek (2009).
Altered Carbon
This is set in the 25th century when the human mind has been digitized and the soul itself is transferable from one body to the next. Takeshi Kovacs, a former elite interstellar warrior known as an Envoy who has been imprisoned for 500 years, is downloaded into a future he'd tried to stop. If he can solve a single murder in a world where technology has made death nearly obsolete, he'll get a chance at a new life on Earth.
Upload
Upload is set in the future where humans are able to "upload" themselves into their preferred choice of afterlife. When Nathan meets his early death, he is greeted by Nora in his version of heaven. The series follows the two as Nathan grows accustomed to life away from his loved ones, and the alive Nora struggles to stay afloat working her job alongside Nathan in the afterlife.
The Peripheral
The Peripheral revolves around Flynne Fisher, a woman in a near-future America in which technology has started to subtly alter society. Flynne discovers a hidden connection to a very different reality - and the dark future of her own.
Raised by Wolves
Raised by Wolves centers upon two androids tasked with raising human children on a mysterious virgin planet. As the burgeoning colony of humans threatens to be torn apart by religious differences the androids learn that controlling the beliefs of humans is a treacherous and difficult task.
Designated Survivor
When the President, VP, and Cabinet all meet in one location for an event such as the State of the Union, one Cabinet member is conspicuously missing: the Designated Survivor. Hidden away in an undisclosed location with Presidential-level security, the Designated Survivor is ready to take the reins of the President should the unthinkable happen and the rest of the government is wiped out in an attack.
See
See is an epic, world-building drama set in the future, when the human race has lost the sense of sight, and society has had to find new ways to interact, to build, to hunt, to survive. All of that is challenged when a set of twins with sight is born.
Sense8
This sci-fi thriller is described as "a gripping global tale of minds linked and souls hunted" and will premiere late next year - presumably, all in one sitting. It was born from a late-night conversation among the Wachowskis, "several years ago," about the ways in which technology is great but also terrible.
Travelers
Travelers is set hundreds of years from now when the last surviving humans discover the means of sending consciousness back through time, directly into people in the 21st century. These "travelers" assume the lives of seemingly random people, while secretly working as teams to perform missions in order to save humanity from a terrible future. These travelers are: FBI Special Agent Grant MacLaren (McCormack), the team's leader; Marcy (Porter), a young, intellectually disabled woman in the care of her social worker, David (Gilmore); Trevor (Abrahamson), a high school quarterback; Carly (Cooper), a single mom in an abusive relationship; and Philip (Dolman), a heroin-addicted college student. Armed only with their knowledge of history and an archive of social media profiles, the travelers discover that 21st century lives and relationships are as much a challenge as their high-stakes missions.
Quantum Leap (2022)
It's been 30 years since Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished. Now a new team has been assembled to restart the project in the hopes of understanding the mysteries behind the machine and the man who created it.
Humans
Humans is set in a parallel present where the latest must-have gadget for any busy family is a 'Synth' - a highly-developed robotic servant eerily similar to its live counterpart. In the hope of transforming the way they live, one strained suburban family purchases a refurbished synth only to discover that sharing life with a machine has far-reaching and chilling consequences.
Devs
A computer engineer investigates the secretive quantum computing development division in her company, which she believes was behind the disappearance of her boyfriend.
By filmmaker Alex Garland, who has made a name for himself over the past few years with films such as Ex Machina and Annihilation.
Bull (2016)
Bull follows Dr. Jason Bull, a trial consultant who uses psychology, human intuition and high-tech data to help his clients win cases.
Based on Dr. Phil McGraw's career, Bull provides an intriguing look into the world of trial consulting and the strategies used to sway a jury's opinion.
Y: The Last Man
Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra's award-winning comic is finally coming to live-action. The story is set in a post-apocalyptic world where almost every male has died except for one.
The Good Wife
A politician's wife becomes a defense attorney in this female-driven drama. She navigates her career while supporting her family.
The Good Wife is a captivating show that explores politics, law, and relationships. With a talented cast, it keeps audiences on the edge of their seats.
neXt (2020)
neXt is a propulsive, fact-based thriller grounded in the latest A.I. research. It features a brilliant but paranoid former tech CEO who joins a Homeland Cybersecurity Agent and her team to stop the world's first artificial intelligence crisis: the emergence of a rogue AI with the ability to continuously improve itself. Marrying pulse-pounding action with a layered examination of how technology is invading our lives and transforming us in ways we don't yet understand, the series also presents us with a villain like we've never seen before, one whose greatest weapon against us is ourselves.
Leverage: Redemption
The show follows a gang of reformed crooks using their unique skills to right corporate and governmental injustices inflicted on common citizens.
Debris
Debris follows two agents from two different continents, and wielding two different mindsets, who must work together to investigate when wreckage from a destroyed alien spacecraft has mysterious effects on humankind.
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