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TheLastSignal
Something answered. Slowly.
A decommissioned listening station in the far north picks up a reply to a message humanity sent forty years ago — and the reply is getting closer.
About
A decommissioned listening station in the far north picks up a reply to a message humanity sent forty years ago — and the reply is getting closer. Shot on location over fourteen months, the result is intimate, patient and quietly devastating.
Awards
- Best Drama Series — Vantage Fest
Cast
Marguerite FoyGovernor Sable
Ezra LundLark
Idris VanceFather Solomon
Priya RamanDr. Isolde Ferrar
Bel OkoyeThe Cartographer- Malik DansuWren
Episodes
2023 · 8 episodes
- 01
ArrivalThe signal answers back.56m - 02
StaticAn old debt resurfaces on the worst possible night.55m - 03
The SignalThe town closes ranks and someone gets left outside.54m - 04
Dead AirThe investigation turns inward, and nobody likes what it finds.53m - 05Carrier WaveThe signal answers back.51m
- 06NightwatchAn old debt resurfaces on the worst possible night.50m
- 07Echo ReturnThe town closes ranks and someone gets left outside.49m
- 08First ContactThe investigation turns inward, and nobody likes what it finds.48m
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Audience score
95%
Based on 4863 verified viewers · 67% critics
One of those where the last ten minutes rewrite the rest.
Gorgeous to look at, genuinely tense, and it never once cheats the audience.
Peter L. · 5 Aug 2026
One of those where the last ten minutes rewrite the rest.
Gorgeous to look at, genuinely tense, and it never once cheats the audience.
Ravi N. · 29 Jul 2026
One of those where the last ten minutes rewrite the rest.
Gorgeous to look at, genuinely tense, and it never once cheats the audience.
Bryn A. · 22 Jul 2026
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