Electric Dreams

Season

2017

USA

7.2

TV-MA

A sci-fi anthology series with stand-alone episodes based on the works of Philip K. Dick.

Clips & Trailers

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Episode List

S1 • E1

The Hood Maker

In a world without advanced technology, mutant telepaths have become humanity's only mechanism for long-distance communication. But their powers have unintended implications. When the public begin to embrace mysterious, telepath-blocking hoods, two detectives with an entangled past are brought in to investigate.

S1 • E2

Impossible Planet

Two jaded space tourism employees (Jack Reynor, Benedict Wong) take up an elderly woman's (Geraldine Chaplin) request for a trip back to Earth - a planet which has lost all life due to a catastrophic "solar fire". She's easily confused but very rich, so what's the harm in indulging her fantasies? As the journey unfolds, their scam begins to eat away at them and they ultimately find themselves dealt a bittersweet surprise.

S1 • E3

The Commuter

Ed Jacobson (Timothy Spall), a train station employee, is alarmed to discover that a number of commuters are taking the train to a town that shouldn't exist. When he investigates for himself, he comes face to face with an alternate reality that forces him to confront his own struggles around his relationship with his wife Mary (Rebecca Manley) and his very troubled son Sam (Anthony Boyle).

S1 • E4

Crazy Diamond

Ed Morris, an average man, is approached by a gorgeous synthetic woman with an illegal plan that could change his life completely. A smitten Ed decides to help, and then his world really begins to crumble.

S1 • E5

Real Life

In a near future, a policewoman who still blames herself for a past tragedy accepts her loving wife's suggestion to take a vacation in a virtual simulation, but she soon realizes that this might be the real life and hers is a simulation.

S1 • E6

Human Is

A woman suffering in a loveless marriage, finds that upon his return from battle, her emotionally abusive husband suddenly appears to be a different man - in more ways than one.

S1 • E7

The Father Thing

The world is under attack from aliens. Charlie must make difficult decisions to protect his mother and the human race, as he is among the first to realize that humans are being replaced by dangerous monsters.

S1 • E8

Autofac

Society and the world as we know it has collapsed. A massive, automatic factory operates according to the principles of consumerism; humans consume to be happy, and in order to consume continuously, they must be denied freedom of choice and free will. When a small band of rebels decide to shut down the factory, they discover they may actually be the perfect consumers after all.

S1 • E9

Safe and Sound

A small-town girl (Annalise Basso), already gripped with social anxiety, moves to a big city with her mother (Maura Tierney). For the first time she is exposed to urban society's emphasis on security and terrorist prevention. Her school days are soon consumed by fear and paranoia, but she finds guidance and companionship in the most unexpected of places.

S1 • E10

Kill All Others

A man hangs dead from a lamppost, apparently murdered and inexplicably ignored by passersby, after a politician (Vera Farmiga) makes a shocking statement encouraging violence. When one Philbert Noyce (Mel Rodriguez) dares to question the situation, he becomes an instant target.