StartUp
Criminal underworldOrganized crime, gangs and the criminal life seen from the inside.This show: 8/10Morally grayNo clean heroes or villains anywhere in sight.This show: 8/10SerializedContinuous arcs where every episode builds on the last.This show: 8/10Ensemble castMany characters carrying equal weight.This show: 7/10TenseSustained suspense and pressure from start to finish.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Adam BrodyEdi GathegiOtmara MarreroKristen ArizaFredrick Bam ScottMartin Freeman
Written by
Ben Ketai
Starring
Adam BrodyEdi GathegiOtmara MarreroKristen ArizaFredrick Bam ScottMartin Freeman
Written by
Ben Ketai
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StartUp Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | E6 | E7 | E8 | E9 | E10 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | 7.9 | 7.2 | 7.6 | 7.6 | 8.0 | 8.0 | 7.8 | 8.4 | 8.4 | 8.0 | 8.5 | |
| S2 | 8.0 | 7.4 | 7.5 | 7.6 | 7.9 | 8.1 | 8.0 | 7.7 | 8.1 | 8.7 | 8.4 | |
| S3 | 7.7 | 7.6 | 7.3 | 7.4 | 7.4 | 7.5 | 7.7 | 7.6 | 7.7 | 8.2 | 8.1 |
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About
"A scrappy crime thriller about dirty money going digital."
StartUp follows a struggling entrepreneur, a desperate banker, and a local gang member whose paths cross around a new cryptocurrency platform that promises clean money and quick escape from their separate messes. As the platform grows, it draws in criminals, feds, and hackers, forcing the founders into an uneasy alliance. The show moves briskly through heist-thriller plotting and tech-world ambition, mixing crime drama with a scrappy, low-budget energy. It's carried more by tense character dynamics and moral compromise than by polish, delivering a lean, twisty ride rather than a prestige epic.
Watch it for
the tense three-way alliance between an entrepreneur, a banker, and a gang member.
Maybe skip if
you expect big-budget polish or slow, character-driven prestige drama.
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All Seasons
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Season 12016
7.96K107h 25m
Forced to fund a tech company with dirty money from unsuspecting places while forming ties with a dangerous Haitian gang, the fight to build a business pales in comparison to the fight to stay alive, especially when there's a vehement FBI agent who wields the power to make or break those he comes in contact with—and not always for the right reasons
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Season 22017
8.04K107h 21m
With their startup now in the hands of the Russian Mob, our unlikely trio, Izzy Morales, Ronald Dacey, and Nick Talman, reinvest in their partnership and launch an exciting new endeavour, a darknet prototype called Araknet. But as their decentralized network begins to grow, so too does the peril, the corruption, and the moral turpitude. As our heroes attempt to stay alive long enough to triumph, the sophomore season of StartUp poses the all-important question, what is the cost of ambition, and reveals the frightening lengths one might go to achieve ultimate success.
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Season 32018
7.74K107h 7m
After a year of extraordinary growth, ArakNet’s unregulated network becomes the target of NSA Agent Rebecca Stroud who vows to infiltrate it at any cost. The arrival of this new adversary, coupled with the mysterious return of Izzy from her ill-fated journey to Cuba, creates an extraordinary pressure cooker and ultimately turns our heroes against one another.
Full Cast & Crew
Cast
Adam Brody Nick Talman
Edi Gathegi Ronald Dacey
Otmara Marrero Izzy Morales
Kristen Ariza Tamara Dacey
Fredrick Bam Scott Emmanuel
Martin Freeman Phil Rask
Ron Perlman Wes Chandler
Jared Wofford Frantz
Génesis Castro Díaz Elsie Dacey
Jevon White Gilles
Crew
Ben Ketai
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