Documentary series · Netflix
Pandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Pandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Pandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak reads strongest on Character Depth, Bingeability and Emotional Weight.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
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.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The story
What it's about
In this docuseries, meet the heroes on the front lines of the battle against influenza and learn about their efforts to stop the next global outbreak.
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
S01E01
It Hunts Us
S01E02
Pandemic Is Now
S01E03
Seek, Don't Hide
S01E04
Hold On to Your Roots
S01E05
Prayers Might Work
S01E06
Don't Stop Now
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Sheri FinkProducer
Direction
- Doug ShultzDirector
Where to watch
Streaming
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