BrainDead (2016)

Genre

satire, comedy drama, science fiction film

Country

United States

Length

1 season, 13 episodes

Rated

TV-14

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 203 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young documentary filmmaker takes a job in her brother's Senate office. She discovers that alien bugs are eating the brains of politicians and taking over Washington D.C.

satiricalquirkyfast-pacedsuspensefuldarkly comicoffbeatsharp

What happens

BrainDead is an American political satire science fiction comedy-drama television series created by Robert and Michelle King. The series stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Laurel Healy, a documentary film-maker who takes a job working for her brother Luke (Danny Pino), a U.S. Senator, after the funding for her latest film falls through. Assigned as his new constituency caseworker, she discovers that Washington, D.C. has been invaded by extraterrestrial insects which are eating the brains and taking control of people, including members of Congress and their staffers. Much of the internal comedy of the series was that, in the altered reality of Washington, D.C. politics, only a few people noticed. CBS announced a 13-episode straight-to-series order on July 22, 2015. The show premiered on June 13, 2016. After four episodes, the show moved from its Monday timeslot to Sundays to make room for the network's coverage of the Republican and Democratic National Conventions. The show had a planned four-season arc, which would have seen the bugs then invade Wall Street, Silicon Valley and Hollywood, but on October 17, 2016, CBS canceled the series after one season. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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