Limited series · Netflix
GHOUL
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How GHOUL actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
GHOUL 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.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
A newly minted military interrogator arrives at a covert detention center to discover that some of the terrorists held there are not of this world.
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S01E03
Reveal Their Guilt, Eat Their Flesh
Nida learns of the ghoul inhabiting Saeed. Upon telling her fellow interrogators, she learns the alarming truth about what its presence reveals.
S01E02
The Nightmares Will Begin
Flashes of the past begin to haunt Nida. When sect leader Ali Saeed is brought for questioning, his unnerving answers lead her to suspect his motives.
S01E01
Out of the Smokeless Fire
After exposing her father's anti-government activities, Nida Rahim is inducted as the newest interrogator at the remote Meghdoot 31 detention center.
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
- Jason BlumExecutive Producer
- Ryan TurekExecutive Producer
Direction
- Patrick GrahamDirector
Where to watch
Streaming
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