TV series

Origin

2018 · 1 season

A claustrophobic, slow-burning mystery that keeps you tense and guessing as paranoia builds among strangers in deep space.

Overview: A group of troubled passengers wake up on a damaged spaceship abandoned in deep space, each having left behind a dark past in search of a fresh start on a newly colonized planet. As their terrifying situation spirals into paranoia, they come to realize that the greatest threat to their dream of starting over – and indeed their lives – is something far darker than the pasts they were so desperate to escape.
How it feels: Tense, dark, eerie and bleak. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
About: Isolation, survival, identity, deception
Content: Mild violence, gore, sexual content and language.
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Tone: tensestrength 3 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
eeriestrength 2 of 3
bleakstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: isolation
survival
identity
deception
trauma
Places: space
Era: far-future
Audience: adult
Form: serialised
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild