Serial Experiments Lain
Serial Experiments Lain Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | E6 | E7 | E8 | E9 | E10 | E11 | E12 | E13 | ||
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| S1 | 7.9 | 7.6 | 7.8 | 7.5 | 7.7 | 7.9 | 7.5 | 7.8 | 8.3 | 7.8 | 8.4 | 7.5 | 8.5 | 8.6 |
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About
"A hypnotic descent into identity and static"
A quiet teenager named Lain receives an email from a classmate who recently died, and follows the thread into the Wired, a stand-in for the internet that starts bleeding into physical reality. What unfolds is less a plot than a slow dissolve of identity, memory, and selfhood, told through eerie sound design, static-drenched visuals, and dread-soaked silences. It's cerebral, disorienting, and often willfully obscure, more interested in mood and ideas about consciousness and networks than narrative clarity. Watching it feels like sinking into a fever dream you're not meant to fully wake from.
the unsettling atmosphere and prophetic take on how networks dissolve the self.
you need clear plotting rather than abstract, dreamlike ambiguity.
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All Seasons
| Ep | Title | Rating | Yours | Votes | Runtime | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ▶ | 1 | Weird | 7.6 | 974 | 25 min | |
| ▶ | 2 | Girls | 7.8 | 852 | 25 min | |
| ▶ | 3 | Psyche | 7.5 | 781 | 25 min | |
| ▶ | 4 | Religion | 7.7 | 757 | 25 min | |
| ▶ | 5 | Distortion | 7.9 | 748 | 25 min | |
| ▶ | 6 | Kids | 7.5 | 710 | 25 min | |
| ▶ | 7 | Society | 7.8 | 692 | 25 min | |
| ▶ | 8 | Rumors | 8.3 | 711 | 25 min | |
| ▶ | 9 | Protocol | 7.8 | 659 | 25 min | |
| ▶ | 10 | Love | 8.4 | 707 | 25 min | |
| ▶ | 11 | Infornography | 7.5 | 649 | 25 min | |
| ▶ | 12 | Landscape | 8.5 | 714 | 25 min | |
| ▶ | 13 | Ego | 8.6 | 788 | 24 min |