(Jean Whiteside/FOX)
Network: FOX
Episodes: 10 (hour)
Seasons: One
TV show dates: October 6, 2020 — December 22, 2020
Series status: Cancelled
Performers include: John Slattery, Elizabeth Cappuccino, Jason Butler Harner, Fernanda Andrade, Eve Harlow, Aaron Moten, Michael Mosley, Evan Whitten, and Gerardo Celasco.
TV show description:
An action-thriller series, the neXt TV show revolves around the emergence of a deadly, rogue Artificial Intelligence. It’s a series that asks us to look closely not only at our relationship to technology but to one another.
Silicon Valley pioneer Paul LeBlanc (Slattery) built a fortune and his legacy on his world-changing innovations. He created them while ignoring and alienating the people around him, including his own daughter, Abby (Cappuccino), and his short-sighted younger brother, Ted (Harner), who now runs the company they created together.
After discovering that one of his own creations — a powerful artificial intelligence called “neXt” — might spell doom for humankind, Paul tried to shutter the project, only to be kicked out of the company by his own brother, leaving him with nothing but mounting dread about the fate of the world.
When a series of unsettling tech mishaps points to a potential worldwide crisis, LeBlanc joins forces with Special Agent Shea Salazar (Andrade). Having escaped crime, poverty, and a deadly criminal father to remake herself as a force for good, Salazar’s strict moral code and sense of duty have earned her the respect of her team.
They’re a talented, but contentious group held together by her faith in their ability to defy expectations and transcend their differences. They include high-strung cybercrime agent Gina (Harlow); hard-working but boring Ben (Moten); and CM (Mosley), an ex-con hacker with a genius IQ.
The demands of Salazar’s challenging job have taken their toll on her home life, where she doesn’t get to spend enough time with her young son, Ethan (Whitten), and her husband Ty (Celasco).
Now, LeBlanc and Salazar and her team are the only ones standing in the way of a potential global catastrophe. They’re fighting an emergent superintelligence that, instead of launching missiles, will deploy the immense knowledge it has gleaned from the data all around us to recruit allies, turn people against each other, and eliminate obstacles to its own survival and growth. It’s a villain unlike anything we’ve ever seen – one whose greatest weapon against us is ourselves.
Episode #10 — File #10
NEXT taunts LeBlanc with a new tactic relating to his illness and Shea and LeBlanc devise one last dangerous ploy to destroy NEXT, and save their lives, their families and the world.
First aired: December 22, 2020.
What do you think? Do you like the neXt TV show? Do you think it should have been cancelled or renewed for a second season?
Make S2 of neXt
Next is a great show. Please do not cancel. It is such a waste of viewer’s tine when shows are just cancelled. Viewers invest time and emotions and then the plug is pulled. If shows aren’t going to be ended properly why should I begin watching any of them. Something everyone should keep in mind.
Guess smart shows can’t compete with reality shows
It would be a travesty, to cancel this show. It’s well written, well acted and is a great drama. Fox is insane if they cancel such a provocative show.
This show is awesome and it’s sad that it cancelled. But still I have to compliment that ending was clear and it didn’t leave annoying hangers
Please don’t cancel Next, it’s made well, to captivate your interest. I love this show!!!
Fox is pathetic. Against all odds, they put together a smart, engaging show that doesn’t insult viewer intelligence, and they kill it. Most gripping pilot episode of anything in years. It was building up to be the next Person of Interest. Ah well, since it’s gone, I’ll go back to playing online chess and re-binge watching POI. Nothing else they offer is worth losing an hour of life for; idiotic reality shows and cartoons that are cheap to produce and set the lowest possible bar for viewer IQ. Sad. Just sad.
Please keep Next on tv.great show
I was hooked after first episode. Great characters and story.Should have kept going!
dont cancel next its a good show dont be idiots
finally a gripping action drama from fox and ot gets canceled. It took me 3 weeks to watch the first episode and I liked it so much that I binged the rest of the episodes right then ! This is one of the best shows on TV right now. If u keep underestimating the public we will all go to an alternative network who isn’t afraid to put a little money into good TV rather than airing mindless adult cartoons. Cartoons can be fun, but a gripping fast thinking drama is much more addictive and will attract that section of… Read more »
FOX does it again! Cancels an interesting show after 3 episodes?
I guess now FOX will be known as the singing reality & Cartoon Network. I’m not going to bother watching ; they’ll disappoint when you get interested.
I want more of next
Dont cancel the show
Don’t cancel Next!!!! It’s so intriguing. Want to see more!!
do not cancel neXt
thanks.