The Feed is the series you want to watch

In a small room at FC Hyena, I was presented with the first episode of The Feed. In good company with the main actors Nina Toussaint-White and Guy Burnet themselves, by the way. It’s a series that gets under your skin, because what if and what would I actually do in such a situation? And that’s also what Burnet himself hopes you will start to wonder.

Let me sketch the situation. You live somewhat now or maybe in ten years, in your head there is a chip implanted that controls everything. The company developing this chip prefers that you are on non-stop, so they can see what you think, why, and with whom. You can store your memories very precisely in a kind of cloud, but if you’d rather forget an event, it can be erased just like that. Until someone hacks the system and prompts you to commit murder. That’s where the series (logically) becomes incredibly grim.

The series is created by Channing Powell, who is also responsible for The Walking Dead. It’s a psychological thriller with a sometimes slightly creepy edge, but it mainly creeps up on you because the scenario might be closer than you think. We sober beings think that it won’t happen, but what if I tell you that exactly such a chip is going to be released? This year? By Elon Musk, the one from Tesla? The one who wants to connect the brain to a computer with their company Neuralink? Then it all seems a bit less science fiction. Musk is convinced that, if we’re not careful, people will be overtaken by computers. To counter this, they are focusing on neurotechnology, so that soon we can all upgrade our brains.

I won’t do that, you might think. Until you’re lying in labor in the hospital (which is what happens in The Feed) and you only have access to an epidural if you are ‘on’. Kate and Tom Hatfield struggle with the technology, resist Tom’s family’s company that is responsible for the chip, but are they making the right choices? Watch this series, starting October 10 on Ziggo.