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Caprica

★ 7.1 28K votes 2009–2010 1 season · 18 episodes Ended Syfy
Faith & religionBelief, doubt and religious institutions.This show: 8/10PhilosophicalBig questions of meaning, ethics and existence.This show: 8/10Deep worldbuildingDense lore that rewards immersion.This show: 8/10Family sagaBonds and fractures across generations of one family.This show: 8/10SerializedContinuous arcs where every episode builds on the last.This show: 8/10Near-future techTechnology one step ahead of today, and what it costs us.This show: 7/10Existential dreadMortality and meaninglessness confronted head-on.This show: 7/10Slow burnDeliberate pacing where the payoffs are earned over long stretches.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Eric StoltzEsai MoralesPaula MalcomsonAlessandra TorresaniMagda ApanowiczSasha Roiz
Written by
Remi AubuchonRonald D. Moore
Starring
Eric StoltzEsai MoralesPaula MalcomsonAlessandra TorresaniMagda ApanowiczSasha Roiz
Written by
Remi AubuchonRonald D. Moore
Ratings per Episode
246810
Votes per Episode
03757501k2k

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About

"A slow-burn tragedy about how monsters get made"

Set six decades before Battlestar Galactica, Caprica follows two families on a technologically advanced, seemingly utopian world after a terrorist bombing kills a teenage girl. Her grieving father, a brilliant but ruthless engineer, uploads her digital essence into a robotic body, unwittingly creating the first Cylon. The show trades space battles for boardrooms, religious extremism, and family tragedy, unfolding as a dense, slow-burn drama about ambition, faith, and what makes someone human. It's cerebral and melancholic rather than thrilling, rewarding patience more than spectacle, and never got the chance to fully pay off its ideas.

Watch it for

a bold, cerebral origin story exploring grief, faith, and the birth of artificial life.

Maybe skip if

you want the action and pacing of Battlestar Galactica rather than slow, dialogue-heavy drama.

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

All Seasons

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Season 12010
7.69K1815h 23m
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1Pilot7.9
1K93 min
▶2Rebirth7.4
62147 min
▶3Reins of a Waterfall7.3
55744 min
▶4Gravedancing7.4
53544 min
▶5There Is Another Sky7.8
56344 min
▶6Know Thy Enemy7.3
49744 min
▶7The Imperfections of Memory7.2
49460 min
▶8Ghosts in the Machine7.7
49260 min
▶9End of Line8.1
51844 min
▶10Unvanquished7.4
46643 min
▶11Retribution7.3
44144 min
▶12Things We Lock Away7.2
42843 min
▶13False Labor7.3
42544 min
▶14Blowback7.9
41745 min
▶15The Dirteaters7.7
41744 min
▶16The Heavens Will Rise7.7
40260 min
▶17Here Be Dragons8.0
40960 min
▶18Apotheosis8.6
52060 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Eric Stoltz Daniel Graystone
Esai Morales Joseph Adama
Paula Malcomson Amanda Graystone
Alessandra Torresani Zoe Graystone
Magda Apanowicz Lacy Rand
Sasha Roiz Sam Adama
Polly Walker Clarice Willow
Jim Thomson Serge
Brian Markinson Jordan Duram
Hiro Kanagawa Cyrus Xander

Crew

Remi Aubuchon
Ronald D. Moore

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