The Swarm (2023)
Synopsis
Across the globe, strange happenings, borne out of the oceans, are mystifying and imperiling the world’s population. A group of scientists undertakes a terrifying mission to the depths of the Arctic Ocean to confront a deadly intelligent life force bent on human extinction.
First Air Date: 2023-03-06
Last Air Date: 2023-03-09
Number of Seasons: 1
Number of Episodes: 8
Networks: ZDF
Top Cast
- Alba Gaïa Bellugi as Isabelle
- Alexander Karim as Dr. Sigur Johanson
- Cécile de France as Dr. Cécile Roche
- Leonie Benesch as Charlie Wagner
- Joshua Odjick as Leon Anawak
- Takehiro Hira as Riku Sato
- Krista Kosonen as Tina Lund
- Rosabell Laurenti Sellers as Alicia Delaware
- Barbara Sukowa as Prof. Katherina Lehmann
- Oliver Masucci as Jasper Alban
Seasons
Miniseries (2023)
No overview available for this season.
Episodes:
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Ep. 1: Episode 1
Disturbing events in the world's oceans alarm scientists around the globe, launching an investigation into a mysterious threat to humanity's fragile existence.
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Ep. 2: Episode 2
As bizarre occurrences continue to unfold around the world, scientists scramble to find the source of mysterious deaths and phenomena endangering humanity.
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Ep. 3: Episode 3
While Venice suffers an unprecedented plague of jellyfish, it's discovered that a mutated bacterium is the cause of a growing number of deaths on the coasts.
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Ep. 4: Episode 4
Political leaders grow skeptical about the dramatic situation on the French Atlantic coast, while the ice worms on the sea bed continue to spread.
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Ep. 5: Episode 5
Dr. Cécile Roche detects in crabs that have overrun coasts around the world the same bacterium that entered drinking water on the French coast via infected lobsters.
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Ep. 6: Episode 6
Johanson suspects that an unknown marine intelligence, which he calls Yrr, is behind the strange happenings, and wants to contact the life form.
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Ep. 7: Episode 7
The expedition to study the Yrr sets out for the Arctic, where a large number of Yrr signals were spotted.
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Ep. 8: Episode 8
With humanity's future at stake, the team butts heads on what to do. In a desperate situation, a radical decision is made.
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