//Series
Cybersecurity series, reviewed honestly.
Long-form shows where the security texture earns its place, and a few that don't. Each entry says who it's for, who it isn't, and how it ages.
The Undeclared War
Peter Kosminsky · 2022–2022
Peter Kosminsky's Channel 4 / Peacock six-episode drama about a young GCHQ analyst (Hannah Khalique-Brown) facing a Russian cyber operation against UK infrastructure during a 2024 election cycle.
IntermediateGeopoliticsThreat IntelRead reviewThis World: The Cyber Arms Race
Jane Corbin · 2018–2018
Single-episode BBC documentary by Jane Corbin, broadcast 2018, on the early-2010s Stuxnet aftermath and the wider state-on-state cyberweapons trade.
BeginnerGeopoliticsThreat IntelRead reviewWestworld
Jonathan Nolan, Lisa Joy · 2016–2022
Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy's HBO adaptation of the Crichton film, expanded into a four-season meditation on AI emergence, surveillance capitalism, and what consciousness owes its substrate. Strong start, contested finish.
BeginnerAISurveillanceRead reviewYou Are Wanted
Matthias Schweighöfer · 2017–2018
Matthias Schweighöfer's Amazon Prime German-language thriller about a hotel manager whose life is dismantled by an unseen attacker who plants evidence and reroutes his identity.
BeginnerNarrativeCybercrimeRead review