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Calls

★ 7.7 9K votes 2021–2021 1 season · 9 episodes Ended Apple TV
ExperimentalFormally adventurous television that breaks the rules.This show: 9/10AnthologyA new story or cast with every episode or season.This show: 9/10Dialogue-drivenThe writing's voice is the main event.This show: 9/10Stylized directionBold, signature formal choices.This show: 9/10UnsettlingA creeping sense of unease and wrongness that gets under your skin.This show: 8/10TenseSustained suspense and pressure from start to finish.This show: 8/10Mounting dreadThe pleasure is in the slowly mounting fear.This show: 7/10Psychological horrorFear that comes from the mind: paranoia, sanity, perception.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Aubrey PlazaClancy BrownNika FuttermanMatt LauriaSalli SaffiotiJoey King
Written by
Fede Alvarez
Starring
Aubrey PlazaClancy BrownNika FuttermanMatt LauriaSalli SaffiotiJoey King
Written by
Fede Alvarez
Ratings per Episode
246810
Votes per Episode
02505007501k

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About

"A mystery told almost entirely through voices"

Calls tells its story almost entirely through phone conversations, each one a self-contained slice of a stranger's day that starts normal and curdles into dread. The visuals are minimal, mostly abstract waveforms and text, so everything rides on voice performance and sound design. Episode by episode the calls interlock, hinting at some larger catastrophe unfolding in the background. It's tense, eerie, and unusually intimate for a horror show, closer to a radio drama than animation. Episodes run short, but the format demands close listening and rewards patience with dread.

Watch it for

the inventive audio-first format that makes ordinary phone calls feel genuinely unsettling.

Maybe skip if

you need visual storytelling, since this is closer to a radio drama than animation.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

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Miniseries2021
7.86K92h 28m
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1The End7.5
91013 min
▶2The Beginning8.2
83318 min
▶3Pedro Across the Street7.9
77318 min
▶4It's All in Your Head7.1
63413 min
▶5Me, Myself, and Darlene7.8
63714 min
▶6The Universe Did It7.4
59017 min
▶7Mom8.0
59419 min
▶8Is There a Scientist on the Plane?8.5
63016 min
▶9Leap Year Girl8.2
53020 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Aubrey Plaza Dr. Rachel Wheating
Clancy Brown General Wilson
Nika Futterman 911 L.A. Operator
Matt Lauria Officer Nevil
Salli Saffioti 911 Operator
Joey King Skylar
Aaron Taylor-Johnson Mark
Paul Walter Hauser Floyd
Nicholas Braun Tim
Mark Duplass Patrick

Crew

Fede Alvarez

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