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Browse - Most popular shows featuring: ethical questionsx
The Good Place
The series focuses on Eleanor Shellstrop (Kristen Bell), who wakes up in the afterlife and is introduced to "The Good Place", a highly selective Heaven-like utopia, as a reward for her righteous life. However, she realizes that she was sent there by mistake and must hide her morally imperfect behavior while trying to become a better and more ethical person.
Mrs. Davis
Mrs. Davis is an exploration of faith versus technology - an epic battle of biblical and binary proportions.
The Purge
The Purge is a series based on movie franchise with the same name. One day each year all laws are suspended for 12 hours and anything that could happen, usually does.
Messiah
A man appears in the Middle East performing miracles. The world's reaction is chronicled in Messiah, a captivating TV series.
The man's true identity is unknown, and tensions rise as people question whether he is a divine entity or a dangerous imposter.
Dr. Death
Based on Wonderly's hit podcast, Dr. Death tells the terrifying true story of Dr. Christopher Duntsch, a rising star in the Dallas medical community.
Young, charismatic and ostensibly brilliant, Dr. Duntsch was building a flourishing neurosurgery practice when everything suddenly changed. Patients entered his operating room for complex but routine spinal surgeries and left permanently maimed or dead.
As victims piled up, two fellow physicians, neurosurgeon Robert Henderson and vascular surgeon Randall Kirby, set out to stop him. Dr. Death explores the twisted mind of a sociopath and the gross negligence of the system designed to protect the most defenseless among us.
Sanctuary
Stem cells, gene therapy, transplants, cloning; The very meaning of the word "humanity" changes daily in the modern world. But there is a darker side to the evolution of mankind, a truth only a few brave souls are willing to face: There are monsters loose in the world.
Intelligence (US)
Intelligence (US) is a gripping drama about a man with a top-secret experimental microchip implanted in his brain. This chip makes him computer-like in the way he processes information.
As he navigates the dangerous world of espionage, he must balance his newfound abilities with his own humanity. Will he become a weapon for the government or use his powers for good? Watch to find out.
Numb3rs
People Lie... Numbers Don't. Inspired by actual cases and experiences, NUMB3RS depicts the confluence of police work and mathematics in solving crime. An FBI agent recruits his mathematical genius brother to help solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles from a very distinctive perspective.
What/If
Social thriller What/If explores the ripple effects of what happens when acceptable people start doing unacceptable things. Each season will tackle a different morality tale inspired by culturally consequential source material, and the power of a single fateful decision to change the trajectory of an entire life.
Soulmates
Soulmates takes place 15 years from now, when science makes a discovery that changes the lives of everyone on the planet - a way to find your soulmate. The series uses the sci-fi conceit to tell six provocative stories about the cost of finding true love, all different in tone and featuring a spectrum of people and relationships.
The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst
The six-part documentary series exposes long-buried information discovered during their seven-year investigation of a series of unsolved crimes, and the man suspected of being at its center - Robert Durst, scion of New York's billionaire Durst family - and was made with his full cooperation.
The Vow
An introspective look at the NXIVM cult founded by Keith Raniere and Nancy Salzman in 1998. Though the organization claimed to provide personal and professional improvement opportunities to those who joined, it has since made headlines for various charges brought against its leaders, including sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy.
Vice
The HBO series showcases a mix of stories from around the globe. Among the segments in production for possible inclusion in the show: Taliban child suicide bombers; North Korean slave labor camps; New York's underground voodoo heroin clinics; Somalian pirates; and Satanic dentists in the Pacific Northwest.
Dirty Money (2018)
From rigged cars to wildly inflated drug prices, this documentary series lifts the lid on shocking acts of corporate greed and corruption.
The Outer Limits
Like the classic 1960s series of the same name, each episode is a celebration of the human imagination in which humanity's exploration of new frontiers in technology, outer space and the human experience reveal our greatest hopes and darkest fears.
The Booth at the End
The series follows the conversations between an unknown man who sits in the corner at the back of a diner and whomever comes to see him. The people that come to see him tell him their wishes. He gives them a task to complete and once they are done, they get their wish.
The Decalogue
These are ten television drama films, each one based on one of the Ten Commandments.
"For 6,000 years, these rules have been unquestionably right. And yet we break them every day. People feel that something is wrong in life. There is some kind of atmosphere that makes people now turn to other values. They want to contemplate the basic questions of life, and that is probably the real reason for wanting to tell these stories."
Mellékhatás
The Side Effect - RTL Hungary's first self-developed weekly series - is about Zoltán (Bálint Adorjáni), who, as a young, successful doctor, makes a malpractice. Fearing the loss of its existence, it makes immoral decisions and thus initiates a series of dangerous events. It is also about Berta (Alexandra Borbély), who dedicated her life exclusively to her family and never received recognition for it. It is also the story of Anna (Dóra Sztarenki), who leaves medium that pulls her back in which she grew up, and takes on the role of motherhood, which she is so terrified of. And the Side Effect is also the tale of the harmonious marriage of Zoltán and Berta, which falls apart before our eyes as a result of lies, temptations and misfortunes. The series is also about those who want a child at all costs, but for biological reasons this is impossible. And about those who rent their bodies to give birth to others, and those who don't want a child and don't understand why others want them at all costs. And those who didn't want to, yet became them. And also for those who don't have kids but are very afraid of what it will be like when it gets. Last but not least, about motherhood, a human reproduction procedure that is like any human invention: it can be used for good and bad, and which is illegal in Hungary and in most countries of the world.
The Sex Business
Step into the world of sex work and discover the secrets of the trade. The Sex Business takes you on a journey to explore the buying, selling, and marketing of sex.
From high-end escorts to street prostitutes, this documentary series exposes the realities of the sex industry. Get an inside look at the lives of those involved.
Porn Laid Bare
Six people with differing attitudes to pornography spend two weeks inside Spain's adult film industry, exploring the impact of porn on their lives, on society and on the performers.
The Gene: An Intimate History
The Gene: An Intimate History weaves together science, history & personal stories for a historical biography of the human genome, while also exploring breakthroughs for diagnosis & treatment of genetic diseases & the complex ethical questions they raise.
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