FutureStates

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.

Drama

Seasons

The Other Side

1. The Other Side

Air Date: 2010-03-08

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

Seed

2. Seed

Air Date: 2010-03-08

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

3. The Rise

Air Date: 2010-03-08

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

4. Tia and Marco

Air Date: 2010-03-08

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

5. Tent City

Air Date: 2010-03-08

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

6. Silver Sling

Air Date: 2010-03-08

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

7. Plastic Bag

Air Date: 2010-03-08

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

8. Play

Air Date: 2010-03-08

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

PIA

9. PIA

Air Date: 2010-03-08

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

10. Mister Green

Air Date: 2010-03-08

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

Fallout

11. Fallout

Air Date: 2010-03-08

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.

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1. Elliot King Is Third

Air Date: 2014-04-13

4. Return to Elektra Springs

Air Date: 2014-04-13

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.

10. Code Academy

Air Date: 2014-04-06

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 formed to re-educate the two genders without the inherent biases of society. The Equal Futures Academy propels more girls into the arena of captains of technology than any other school in the world. Frankie, Libby and Sheridan of the Girls Who Code are a premiere coterie of students with brains, beauty and binary bravado. The expert hackers have found a way to interact with the boys from their sister school and trouble ensues. Code Academy is a peek into the inner world of adolescence, gender identity formation and the role of cyber space in this tumultuous time of growth.

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Rating

5.5/10

Release Date

2010-03-08

Episodes

20 (4 seasons)

Status

Returning Series

Cast

Production Companies

ITVS

ITVS