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COLLECTION · Series · 2010

FutureStates

What will become of America in five, 25, or even 50 years from today? This series of independent mini-features explores possible future scenarios through the prism of today’s global realities. Immerse yourself in the visions of these independent prognosticators as they inhabit a future of their own imagining.

Source: TMDB
* 5.5 (2)Drama
Studios
PBS · ITVS
Runtime
12 min/ep
Release
08/03/2010
Score
5.5 / 10 (2)
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Seasons and episodes
Season 1
11 episodes · 2010
The Other Side
Episode 1. The Other Side
2010-03-08 · 12 min

A family struggles to escape a stark economic wasteland in hopes of immigrating illegally to a new land of opportunity.

Seed
Episode 2. Seed
2010-03-08 · 12 min

In an industry dominated by genetically modified seeds, a poor farmer struggles to survive. When he resorts to smuggling now-illegal organic seeds across borders he risks everything.

The Rise
Episode 3. The Rise
2010-03-08 · 12 min

In the radically altered housing market of the future, an older couple must forego their dreams of retirement and adapt to the ever-evolving definition of the American dream.

Tia and Marco
Episode 4. Tia and Marco
2010-03-08 · 12 min

When a pregnant border patrol agent discovers an illegal immigrant child hiding in her home, she is forced to question her loyalty to a system of exclusion.

Tent City
Episode 5. Tent City
2010-03-08 · 12 min

In a world where housing is granted only to the powerful few, a father who makes his living evicting the powerless must choose between his responsibilities and his moral principles.

Silver Sling
Episode 6. Silver Sling
2010-03-08 · 12 min

In the polarized economy of the near future, corporations offer incentives to their high-ranking female employees to pay for surrogate pregnancies and chemically accelerated births.

Plastic Bag
Episode 7. Plastic Bag
2010-03-08 · 12 min

Struggling with its immortality, a discarded plastic bag (voiced by Werner Herzog) ventures through the environmentally barren remains of America as it searches for its maker.

Play
Episode 8. Play
2010-03-08 · 12 min

Society's obsession with video and online gaming has advanced to the point that virtual environments are indistinguishable from physical ones.

PIA
Episode 9. PIA
2010-03-08 · 12 min

When a woman in mourning encounters a mysterious wandering service android, she is forced to redefine its conceptions of humanity, relationships, and family.

Mister Green
Episode 10. Mister Green
2010-03-08 · 12 min

In this parable about change, a jaded government undersecretary becomes the unwitting test subject for an experimental program to curb global warming.

Fallout
Episode 11. Fallout
2010-03-08 · 12 min

Los Angeles has fallen victim to a nuclear attack from an unknown aggressor. In the aftermath of the bombing, a young man's search for his girlfriend highlights the human toll of eternal war.

Season 2
4 episodes
Episode 1. Episode 1

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Episode 2. Episode 2

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Episode 3. Episode 3

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Episode 4. Episode 4

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Season 4
3 episodes · 2014
Episode 1. Elliot King Is Third
2014-04-13

No synopsis

Episode 4. Return to Elektra Springs
2014-04-13 · 12 min

A tsunami forces a retired inventor and his son to evacuate their home on the remote Oregon coast. Making their way inland, they encounter a pioneering community that leads the inventor to reconsider returning to his work in free energy.

Episode 10. Code Academy
2014-04-06 · 12 min

In the future, the gender disparity gap was addressed with a radical idea: keep boys and girls physically separate until the age of eighteen. In this society, The Equal Futures Academy for Girls and the Equal Futures Academy for Boys were…

Season 5
7 episodes · 2014
Episode 1. Ant
2014-05-14

After losing a patient to suicide, a guilt-ridden therapist risks his life when he intervenes to diffuse a mounting catastrophic situation of a bi-polar patient who has abruptly stopped taking his medication.

Episode 2. As You Were
2014-05-14

Set in the near future, AS YOU WERE is the story of Johnner Radley, an injured soldier who returns home with advanced prosthetics to replace limbs lost in combat.

Episode 3. Sister of Mine
2014-05-14

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Episode 4. Adversarial Positions
2014-05-14

No synopsis

Episode 5. I Will If You Will
2014-05-14

No synopsis

Episode 6. A Robot Walks Into A Bar
2014-05-14

A new breed of labor robot works at a bar. His mission is to excel at his new job while avoiding human injury, but he soon learns that this may be impossible.

Episode 8. Hail Satan
2014-05-14

No synopsis

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