Max Headroom
Max Headroom Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | E6 | E7 | E8 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | 7.4 | 7.6 | 6.7 | 7.5 | 7.4 | 7.6 | 7.7 | |||
| S2 | 7.7 | 7.1 | 7.4 | 8.0 | 7.8 | 8.3 | 7.5 | 8.0 | 7.4 |
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"Cyberpunk media satire that predicted our screen-obsessed future"
Set in a grim near-future where television networks run society, this cyberpunk series follows investigative reporter Edison Carter, whose consciousness gets accidentally duplicated into a glitchy, wisecracking AI broadcast personality called Max Headroom. The show mixes media satire with cyberpunk noir, taking corporate control of information and turning it into stylish, paranoid television. It's fast-talking, visually inventive for its era, and dense with ideas about surveillance and spectacle. The tone swings between dark satire and pulpy adventure, carried largely by its striking aesthetic and the sheer novelty of its central gimmick, which still feels oddly prescient.
the eerily prescient satire of media, surveillance, and corporate control of information.
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