TV series

Insanity

2021 · 1 season

A slow, unsettling descent into a fractured mind, where reality and delusion blur in a cold, clinical setting.

Overview: A personal tragedy causes young forensics investigator Paula to have a breakdown, which results in her admittance to a psychiatric hospital. There, she is pulled into the darkest and most terrifying corners of her mind by a mysterious doctor.
How it feels: Dark, tense, eerie and bleak. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Madness, identity, conspiracy, trauma
Content: Mild violence, gore, sexual content and language.
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Full breakdown

Tone: darkstrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 3 of 3
eeriestrength 2 of 3
bleakstrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: madness
identity
conspiracy
trauma
isolation
Places: hospital
big city
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: serialised
twist ending
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild