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Containment

★ 7.1 12K votes 2016–2016 1 season · 13 episodes Canceled The CW
SurvivalStaying alive against nature, scarcity or pursuit.This show: 8/10TenseSustained suspense and pressure from start to finish.This show: 8/10Ensemble castMany characters carrying equal weight.This show: 7/10SerializedContinuous arcs where every episode builds on the last.This show: 7/10Dark toneShadowy mood and subject matter, a shade short of outright bleak.This show: 7/10
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Starring
David GyasiChristina MosesChris WoodClaudia BlackGeorge YoungHanna Mangan Lawrence
Written by
Julie Plec
Starring
David GyasiChristina MosesChris WoodClaudia BlackGeorge YoungHanna Mangan Lawrence
Written by
Julie Plec
Ratings per Episode
246810
Votes per Episode
0200400600800

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About

"A city quarantine turned pressure-cooker drama"

When a mysterious virus breaks out in Atlanta, authorities seal off a section of the city with a hard quarantine line, trapping residents, cops, and a hospital staff inside. The show follows the people on both sides of that cordon as panic, scarcity, and rising death tolls test relationships and chains of command. It's a tense ensemble drama that leans on claustrophobia and slow-building dread rather than action, following multiple threads inside and outside the barrier as the situation deteriorates day by day.

Watch it for

the slow-burn tension of watching a barricaded city fracture under fear and scarcity.

Maybe skip if

you want fast plotting and a satisfying resolution rather than open-ended dread.

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

All Seasons

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Season 12016
7.65K139h 3m
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1Pilot7.4
63242 min
▶2I To Die, You To Live7.5
47641 min
▶3Be Angry at the Sun7.7
41942 min
▶4With Silence and Tears7.6
37642 min
▶5Like a Sheep Among Wolves7.6
33042 min
▶6He Stilled the Rising Tumult7.4
32241 min
▶7Inferno7.7
33541 min
▶8There Is a Crack in Everything7.8
31942 min
▶9A Kingdom Divided Against Itself7.7
31242 min
▶10A Time to Be Born7.7
29542 min
▶11Nothing Gold Can Stay8.4
41042 min
▶12Yes Is the Only Living Thing7.6
26342 min
▶13Path to Paradise7.4
28142 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

David Gyasi Alex 'Lex' Carnahan
Christina Moses Jana
Chris Wood Jake
Claudia Black Sabine Lommers
George Young Victor Cannerts, Dr. Victor Cannerts
Hanna Mangan Lawrence Teresa, Teresa Keaton
Trevor St. John Leo
Kristen Lee Gutoskie Katie Frank
Zachary Unger Quentin
Nadine Lewington Suzy

Crew

Julie Plec

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