Max Headroom (Seasons 1–2)

Max Headroom (1987) is an American sci-fi series you can stream online on iFILM — ABC's dystopian adaptation set in a world where television networks hold absolute power and ratings determine everything. Matt Frewer plays both sides of the same person: investigative reporter Edison Carter, and Max Headroom, the world's first self-aware AI television host.

When Carter digs up a secret that could destroy Network 23, the executives have him silenced. His mind gets uploaded into the grid instead, and Max comes online — glitchy, sharp, impossible to shut up. Jeffrey Tambor and Amanda Pays anchor the human side of the story. The series ran briefly but built a devoted audience; its portrait of media oligarchy and manufactured reality hits differently now than it did in 1987. Stream Max Headroom online on iFILM.