Television

Serial Experiments Lain 1998

  • Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery
  • 24 min episodes
  • 1 season
  • 13 episodes
  • Ended
  • TV-14

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Lain—driven by the abrupt suicide of a classmate—logs on to the Wired and promptly loses herself in a twisted mass of hallucinations, memories, and interconnected-psyches.

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  • Suicide or self-harm
  • Harm to children

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Grave, contemplative, open-ended and bleak.

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  • contemplativerelentless
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