Miniseries
Backrooms: INCEPTION
'You're the source.'
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Backrooms: INCEPTION actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Backrooms: INCEPTION reads strongest on Bingeability, Character Depth and Serialized.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
It’s 1997, A mute guy by the name of Colton Bond, a 32 year old man who works at HOH (Helpers of Humanity), decides to explore “The Backrooms” by himself since he became obsessed with it and wants to dig deeper into its origin and exploratory limits.
What he doesn’t realize is, the backrooms were waiting for him.
The run
Seasons
1 season · 6 episodes.
Season 1 · Complete
Season 1
20266 episodes
7.0IMDbIt’s 1997, A mute guy by the name of Colton Bond, a 32 year old man who works at HOH (Helpers of Humanity), decides to explore “The Backrooms” by himself since he became obsessed with it and wants to dig deeper into its origin and exploratory limits. What he doesn’t realize is, the backrooms were waiting for him.
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Writing
- Cone FreemanWriter
- Cone FreemanWriter
Direction
- Cone FreemanDirector
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