Caprica (Season 1)

Caprica (2010) is a science-fiction drama you can watch online on iFILM — a prequel set 58 years before Battlestar Galactica, on the prosperous planet where two rival dynasties unknowingly set in motion the end of humanity.

Daniel Graystone is a tech billionaire who lost his daughter in a terrorist bombing. His grief drives him to push artificial intelligence past every ethical limit to bring her back. Joseph Adama lost his daughter in the same attack. At first he sees hope in Graystone's experiments; slowly, he comes to see them as something far more dangerous. The technology born from that collision will eventually produce the Cylons.

Created by Ronald D. Moore and Remi Aubuchon, the show runs one season across 18 episodes, with Eric Stoltz and Esai Morales leading the cast. It works best not as action sci-fi but as a study of grief weaponised by technology — and how two families, each certain they're doing right, lay the groundwork for catastrophe. Stream Caprica online on iFILM.