Counterpart and 4 Other TV Series About Dystopian Future to Watch After Severance
Technology promises to change our lives beyond recognition, but at what cost?
One of the most successful projects about the dystopian world of the future is Severance, which tells about a corporation that has learned to split the consciousness of its workers into two parts.
We offer all fans of the popular show from Dan Erickson and Ben Stiller to get acquainted with five other projects with an original view of our future.
1. Counterpart, 2017-2019
Howard Silk is an unremarkable clerk in a vast bureaucratic machine. His days pass in a routine devoid of meaning and perspective. But one day everything changes.
The man learns that the agency he works for is connected to transitions to a parallel dimension. Another world was once identical to ours, but since the establishment of contact, they have become increasingly different.
Soon Howard meets his double from the parallel world – a confident, influential man involved in a secret operation that can change the balance between dimensions.
2. Altered Carbon, 2018-2020
Earth, 27th century. Humanity has mastered the technology of consciousness transfer. Now the personality can be stored in a special device and transferred to a new body, making death a simple exchange of the shell.
But this immortality turns out to be a privilege of the rich. Soldier Takeshi, serving a life sentence, receives an unexpected offer: a billionaire offers him to investigate his own murder, promising to get him out of prison in exchange.
As he investigates, Takeshi uncovers secrets that threaten not only his life and freedom, but the very system on which the world rests.
3. 3%, 2016-2020
The world is divided into two parts: the poor live down in the plains, and the rich live somewhere high in the mountains and beyond. The first world is full of danger and injustice, and the second is perfect. That's what they say.
Every year, residents of the first world who have reached the age of 20 have the right to undergo a series of tests and become part of the 3% of the chosen ones – those who will enter the world of the rich and change their lives. But what really awaits them? Nobody knows, because the chosen ones never return.
4. Dark Matter, 2024-...
Physicist Jason Dessen lived a simple, straightforward life in Chicago: a teaching job, a comfortable home, and a family. But fate changes course when Jason accidentally finds himself in an alternate reality where he has chosen the path of a great scientist and abandoned his family.
The new world seems both enticing and alien. To return to those he loves, Jason will have to travel through many parallel universes and get to know different versions of his life. Along the way, he will learn who he could have been and who he truly wants to be.
5. Sense8, 2015-2018
Eight strangers living in different parts of the world suddenly acquire a unique ability: they can see, hear, and feel what their fellow gifted persons are experiencing.
This mystical connection not only opens up new possibilities, but also brings with it a host of problems. Each of them experiences fears and issues, but now their lives are intertwined, and only by joining forces will they be able to understand the nature of their connection and confront those who see them as a threat.