The Swarm

Miniseries

TV-14

70%74%

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.

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8 Episodes

Episode 1
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Episode 1Disturbing events in the world's oceans alarm scientists around the globe, launching an investigation into a mysterious threat to humanity's fragile existence.
Episode 2
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Episode 2Whales are attacking tourists in Canada and lobsters are suddenly deadly in France. The Swedish scientist Dr. Johanson discovers aggressive ice worms on the seabed that are multiplying at breakneck speed.
Episode 3
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Episode 3Venice is experiencing an unprecedented plague of jellyfish. The biologist Cécile Roche has an adventurous assumption about the deaths. Charlie Wagner's best friend has disappeared with her research ship without a trace. In Canada, researcher Anawak is getting to the bottom of whale attacks.
Episode 4
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Episode 4Cécile recommends stopping fishing off the coast and warning the population against using tap water. The ice worms are investigated more closely. Charlie returns to Shetland, where she reunites with her boyfriend Douglas.
Episode 5
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Episode 5When Rahim and Charlie report a light phenomenon and a sound that Jess has recorded, Johanson travels to Shetland. They receive a warning that a tsunami is heading for the Atlantic coast of Northern Europe and Shetland.
Episode 6
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Episode 6Johanson suspects that an unknown marine intelligence, which he calls Yrr, is behind all the results. He wants to contact the life form with a research mission and therefore asks the billionaire and entrepreneur Aito Mifune for help.
Episode 7
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Episode 7The expedition to study the Yrr sets out for the Arctic, where a large number of Yrr signals were spotted.
Episode 8
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Episode 8With humanity's future at stake, the team butts heads on what to do. In a desperate situation, a radical decision is made.