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SF8: Joan's Galaxy
Available: Sept. 5 - 12, All USA
Limited seating
In a world devastated by fine dust pollution, society has been divided into two categories: the "Cs" and the "Ns". People classified as "C" are privileged and injected with a vaccine at birth, which allows them to live up to 100 years; the others, known as "N", only live to age 30. A 26-year-old college student (Choi Sung-eun) learns that she was never actually given the antibody injection and only has a few years to live. "N" suddenly takes interest in the lives of others like herself. She becomes particularly intrigued by Joan (Kim Bo-ra), the only other "N" at her school.
Praised as the Korean Black Mirror, SF8 is exemplary of the new wave of prestige TV fiction that’s found its best expression with shows like HBO’s Westworld or the aforementioned British series, where the lines between small and big screen media meld into a revolutionary visual grammar. An ambitious movie-drama crossover project between MBC, the Directors Guild of Korea, the OTT platform Wavve and the production company Soo Film, this series of stand-alone anticipation tales takes sci-fi to the next level. SF8 was released on Wavve in July while MBC started airing it on August 14.