Your phone already knows you're watching this. It told me.
Described as a paranoid thriller about a hunt for a cyber-terrorist in the vein of Mr. Robot and The Silence of the Lambs.
Direction
Esmail's obsessive symmetry makes anxiety beautiful.
Score
Mac Quayle will make your router feel threatening.
Acting
Julia Roberts in villain territory? Yes please.
Director
Sam Esmail
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Esmail reportedly consulted with actual Anonymous members for authenticity, then anonymized their contributions so thoroughly even the cast doesn't know which scenes came from 'real' hackers.
The title comes from a real NSA internal memo leaked in 2013 advising agents to 'panic carefully' during the Snowden revelations.
US
