TV-14Season 1
The tide has turned.
Synopsis
The Swarm (Der Schwarm, 2023), Season 1 is a sci-fi mystery drama you can watch online on iFILM — eight episodes about the sea turning on the people who thought they owned it.
The dread arrives piecemeal, coast by coast. Infected lobsters carry a mutated bacterium into French drinking water, jellyfish swamp Venice in numbers no one has seen, and deep-sea crabs crawl onto beaches. For a while it reads as a string of unrelated disasters. Then a handful of scientists scattered across the globe start comparing notes, and marine biologist Johanson floats the idea no government wants to hear: a single unknown intelligence in the ocean, which he names the Yrr, is behind all of it. Leaders stall. The window narrows. A research vessel pushes north into the Arctic, where the strongest signals wait.
Adapted from Frank Schätzing's novel and built as a sprawling European co-production, the season trades jump-scares for slow, cold logic. It suits viewers who like their apocalypse argued out in conference rooms as much as on deck. Stream The Swarm Season 1 online on iFILM.
8 episodes
S1·E1Episode 1
Disturbing events in the world's oceans alarm scientists around the globe, launching an investigation into a mysterious threat to humanity's fragile existence.
S1·E2Episode 2
As bizarre occurrences continue to unfold around the world, scientists scramble to find the source of mysterious deaths and phenomena endangering humanity.
S1·E3Episode 3
While Venice suffers an unprecedented plague of jellyfish, it's discovered that a mutated bacterium is the cause of a growing number of deaths on the coasts.
S1·E4Episode 4
Political leaders grow skeptical about the dramatic situation on the French Atlantic coast, while the ice worms on the sea bed continue to spread.
S1·E5Episode 5
Dr. Cécile Roche detects in crabs that have overrun coasts around the world the same bacterium that entered drinking water on the French coast via infected lobsters.
S1·E6Episode 6
Johanson suspects that an unknown marine intelligence, which he calls Yrr, is behind the strange happenings, and wants to contact the life form.
S1·E7Episode 7
The expedition to study the Yrr sets out for the Arctic, where a large number of Yrr signals were spotted.
S1·E8Episode 8
With humanity's future at stake, the team butts heads on what to do. In a desperate situation, a radical decision is made.
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