Scripted series · Netflix
Pacific Rim: The Black
The only way home is through the Black.
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Gideon Adlon
Hayley Travis (voice)
14 eps
Calum Worthy
Taylor Travis (voice)
14 eps
Erica Lindbeck
Loa (voice)
7 eps
Victoria Grace
Mei (voice)
14 eps
Andy McPhee
Shane (voice)
14 eps
Nolan North
Marshall Rask (voice)
1 eps
Bryton James
Corey (voice)
1 eps
Ron Yuan
Shiro Ito (voice)
1 eps
David Errigo Jr.
Root (voice)
1 eps
Martin Klebba
Spyder (voice)
2 eps
Allie MacDonald
Brina Travis (voice)
3 eps
Jason Spisak
Ford Travis (voice)
3 eps
Camryn Jones
Young Hayley (voice)
3 eps
Cole Keriazakos
Young Taylor (voice)
3 eps
Leonardo Nam
Rickter (voice)
3 eps
Vincent Piazza
Joel Wyrick (voice)
2 eps
Ben Diskin
Kaiju bOy (voice)
1 eps
Ryan Robinson
Demarcus (voice)
1 eps
Rhys Darby
Bunyip
1 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Pacific Rim: The Black actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Pacific Rim: The Black reads strongest on Spectacle, Bingeability and World Building.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
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
Two siblings - an idealistic teenage boy and his naive younger sister - are forced to pilot an abandoned Jaeger across a hostile landscape in a desperate attempt to find their missing parents.
The run
Seasons
2 seasons · 14 episodes.
Season 1 · Complete
Season 1
20217 episodes
7.3IMDbAfter Kaiju ravage Australia, two siblings pilot a Jaeger to search for their parents, encountering new creatures, seedy characters and chance allies.
Best episode · S01E01 From the Shadows
Season 2 · Complete
Season 2
20227 episodes
7.4IMDbPiloting Atlas Destroyer with Mei and Boy in tow, Hayley and Taylor continue their journey to Sydney, but first, they must get past a bloodthirsty cult.
Best episode · S02E01 bOy
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S01E01
From the Shadows
Five years after their parents left to find help, siblings Taylor and Hayley find a training Jaeger - but it quickly attracts a Kaiju to their village.
- Directed by Susumu Sugai, Masayuki Uemoto
- Written by Craig Kyle, Greg Johnson
S02E01
bOy
Boy's transformation into a Kaiju alarms Taylor and Mei, but Hayley wants to keep caring for him. A group of mysterious women attempts to kidnap Boy.
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
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
- Craig KyleExecutive Producer
- Ken DuerProducer
- Greg JohnsonExecutive Producer
Writing
- Craig KyleWriter
- Greg JohnsonWriter
Direction
- Susumu SugaiDirector
- Masayuki UemotoDirector
- Takeshi IwataDirector
Music
- Brandon CampbellOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
Streaming
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