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Dr. Brain

★ 6.7 3K votes 2021–2021 1 season · 6 episodes Canceled Apple TV
Puzzle plotNonlinear timelines, twists and structural games that reward attention.This show: 8/10Mystery boxCentral riddles sustained across whole seasons.This show: 8/10Tight limited runA compact, complete story told in just a few episodes.This show: 8/10Dark toneShadowy mood and subject matter, a shade short of outright bleak.This show: 8/10Near-future techTechnology one step ahead of today, and what it costs us.This show: 7/10Psychological horrorFear that comes from the mind: paranoia, sanity, perception.This show: 7/10Genius leadExceptional intellect as the protagonist's engine.This show: 7/10UnsettlingA creeping sense of unease and wrongness that gets under your skin.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Lee Sun-kyunPark Hee-soonUm Tae-gooLee ElJune YoonLee Yoo-young
Starring
Lee Sun-kyunPark Hee-soonUm Tae-gooLee ElJune YoonLee Yoo-young
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Votes per Episode
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About

"A grief-stricken scientist rewires his own mind"

A brilliant but emotionally detached neuroscientist develops a way to sync his own brain with the memories of the dead, hoping to uncover what really happened the night his family was struck by tragedy. Each experiment pulls him deeper into other people's minds and his own unraveling psyche. The show is moody and clinical, more cerebral puzzle-box than thriller, with a slow, deliberate pace and a strong central performance carrying long stretches of quiet dread. It rewards patience over adrenaline, favoring atmosphere and grief over jump-scare mystery mechanics.

Watch it for

the lead performance grounding a strange, grief-heavy sci-fi mystery in real emotion.

Maybe skip if

you want fast-paced thrills rather than a slow, introspective character study.

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

All Seasons

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Season 12021
7.21K65h 42m
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1Chapter 17.1
32160 min
▶2Chapter 27.2
23749 min
▶3Chapter 37.3
20358 min
▶4Chapter 47.3
17953 min
▶5Chapter 57.3
16254 min
▶6Chapter 66.9
17568 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Lee Sun-kyun Ko Se-won
Park Hee-soon Lee Kang-moo
Um Tae-goo Tae-goo
Lee El Dr. Hyun
June Yoon Dr. Myung
Lee Yoo-young Jung Jae-yi
Seo Ji-hye Lieutenant Choi
Lee Jae-won Namil Hong
Heo Jin Nam-il's mother
Ahn Mi-na Yoo-jin

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