The Pretender (Seasons 1–4)

The Pretender (1996) is an American sci-fi drama series you can watch online on iFILM, starring Michael T. Weiss and running four seasons on NBC from 1996 to 2000.

Jarod was taken as a child and raised inside a covert facility called the Centre. He's a genius with one extraordinary trait: he can absorb any skill set fast enough to become a convincing professional in almost any field. For years the Centre used that ability for its own research. The day Jarod understood he was a prisoner, he walked out. Now he moves city to city — one week a surgeon, next a firefighter, then a lawyer — solving someone's problem before Centre operative Miss Parker can track him down.

Andrea Parker's Miss Parker is the show's secret weapon: dry, relentless, and complicated enough that you're never quite sure whether you want her to catch him. The weekly procedural surface covers something more durable — a man reconstructing an identity that was never really given to him. Stream all seasons of The Pretender online on iFILM.