The Andromeda Strain (Season 1)

The Andromeda Strain (2008) is a two-part sci-fi miniseries you can watch online on iFILM, produced for A&E and directed by Mikael Salomon. It adapts Michael Crichton's 1969 novel: a military satellite crashes near a Utah town and a lethal extraterrestrial pathogen kills nearly every resident within minutes.

Two survivors — an infant and an elderly man — may hold the only clues to immunity. A team of scientists including Benjamin Bratt, Eric McCormack, Viola Davis and Daniel Dae Kim gets sealed inside an underground lab equipped with a nuclear failsafe: if the organism code-named Andromeda breaches containment, the facility gets destroyed. The clock starts the moment the doors close.

The 2008 adaptation expands Crichton's procedural framework by adding a journalist working a government cover-up story on the outside — a layer the novel never had. Stream The Andromeda Strain (2008) online on iFILM.