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Blade Runner: Black Lotus
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Jessica Henwick
Elle (voice)
13 eps
Will Yun Lee
Joseph (voice)
13 eps
Wes Bentley
Niander Wallace Jr. (voice)
13 eps
Samira Wiley
Officer Alani Davis (voice)
13 eps
Anna Vocino
Russian Babushka (voice)
1 eps
Charlet Chung
Miu (voice)
1 eps
Colleen O'Shaughnessey
Grocery Woman (voice)
2 eps
Roger Craig Smith
Family Man (voice)
2 eps
Sunil Malhotra
Police Officer (voice)
4 eps
Laura Post
Female Gang Member (voice)
4 eps
Ray Chase
Guard A (voice)
2 eps
Keith Ferguson
Police Officer 2 (voice)
4 eps
Greg Chun
Alan Chen (voice)
1 eps
Charles Halford
Gang Leader (voice)
2 eps
Zehra Fazal
Advertisement (voice)
6 eps
Jim Pirri
Police Dispatcher (voice)
3 eps
Elias Toufexis
Drove (voice)
5 eps
Ely Henry
Goodman (voice)
2 eps
Maury Sterling
Guards / Police Officer (voice)
2 eps
Alessia Cara
Selene (voice)
2 eps
Chris Jai Alex
Guard B (voice)
4 eps
Henry Czerny
Doctor M. (voice)
2 eps
Jason Spisak
Hooper (voice)
4 eps
Peyton List
Josephine Grant (voice)
5 eps
Stephen Root
Police Chief Earl Grant (voice)
6 eps
Gregg Henry
Senator Bannister (voice)
4 eps
Barkhad Abdi
Doc Badger (voice)
6 eps
Brian Cox
Niander Wallace Sr. (voice)
5 eps
Josh Duhamel
Marlowe (voice)
7 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Blade Runner: Black Lotus actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Blade Runner: Black Lotus reads strongest on Spectacle, World Building and Bingeability.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
Los Angeles 2032. A young woman wakes up with no memories, and possessing deadly skills. The only clues to her mystery are a locked data device and a tattoo of a black lotus. Putting together the pieces, she must hunt down the people responsible for her brutal and bloody past to find the truth of her lost identity.
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S01E06
Persistence of Memory
In her quest for revenge, Elle breaks into the home of her next target and is forced to take a hostage. Chief Grant calls in reinforcements.
- Directed by Shinji Aramaki, Kenji Kamiyama
S01E10
Clair de Lune
As Elle struggles with not knowing which of her memories are real and which are artificial, J opens up about his own past.
- Directed by Shinji Aramaki, Kenji Kamiyama
S01E11
All the Best Memories
Desperately lost and searching for peace, Elle hatches a radical plan to put her haunted memories to rest.
- Directed by Shinji Aramaki, Kenji Kamiyama
S01E09
Free Will
Elle goes after the final target to complete her mission of revenge, the man responsible for the Doll Hunt.
- Directed by Shinji Aramaki, Kenji Kamiyama
S01E01
City of Angels
An amnesiac named Elle enters Los Angeles, carrying only a locked data device that may hold the secrets of her past.
- Directed by Shinji Aramaki, Kenji Kamiyama
S01E04
The Doll Hunt
Elle's memories come flooding back, revealing the truth of what happened to her in the desert. Meanwhile, LAPD Officer Davis puts together the clues that will lead her to Black Lotus.
- Directed by Shinji Aramaki, Kenji Kamiyama
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
S01E11
All the Best Memories
- Directed by Shinji Aramaki, Kenji Kamiyama
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.
Executive production
- Al-Francis CuencaProducer
- Eugene SonProducer
- Joseph ChouExecutive Producer
- Andrew A. KosoveExecutive Producer
- Scott ParishProducer
- Ben RobertsExecutive Producer
Direction
- Shinji AramakiDirector
- Kenji KamiyamaDirector
Music
- Michael HodgesOriginal Music Composer
- Gerald TrottmanOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
Streaming
Availability verified against regional listings.
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