Devs (Season 1)

Devs (2020) is Alex Garland's sci-fi mystery miniseries, and you can watch it online on iFILM. Software engineer Lily Chan starts to suspect her own employer had a hand in her boyfriend's death.

Lily, played by Sonoya Mizuno, codes for Amaya, a Silicon Valley tech giant whose campus is built around a towering golden statue of a child. When her partner dies under murky circumstances, she digs toward a sealed-off unit called Devs, a place almost nobody is cleared to enter. Running it is company founder Forest, a soft-spoken Nick Offerman hiding enormous grief. The further Lily pushes, the clearer it gets: behind that glass-walled lab sits a machine that calls free will itself into question.

Garland, the mind behind Ex Machina and Annihilation, wrote and directed all eight episodes himself, turning determinism and quantum computing into a slow, hypnotic thriller scored like a cathedral. The story is complete in eight parts, easy to take in over a single binge. Made for viewers who want science fiction that thinks rather than shoots. Stream Devs (2020) online on iFILM.