Foundation: Trailer, certificate and where to watch
Epic sci-fi drama based on the novels by Isaac Asimov
Year: 2021
Certificate: 15
Isaac Asimov's Foundation novels charted the fall and rise of galactic powers over centuries, and what marked them out was the way they hinged around academia, rather than armadas. That academia was a predictive behavioural science known as 'psychohistory' devised by Hari Seldon, who tried to steer the galaxy away from hundreds of years of apocalyptic darkness.
He's played in Apple's epic show by Jared Harris, and the other star of this show is the special effects - they are truly awe-inspiring, especially in the moments when one empire is falling and the other, led by Seldon, is rising. Fans of the books will notice a lot of differences in the show, but then Asimov did write the first of them in the 1940s.
The most recent third series adds Game Of Thrones's Pilou Asbæk to the cast as warlord The Mule, and a fourth series will follow afterward. (Three series)
