The System: Series 3: Trailer

Limelight

BBC

Fiction, Drama

4.4 • 698 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2023

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

The System, Series 3: Five Methods for Overcoming Mortality.

Ben Lewis’ award-winning propulsive thriller returns for a third and final season.

When an immersive online game spills into the real world, siblings Maya and Jake find themselves pulled into a fight for survival. For them. And for us.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:05.0	So, guys.
0:07.0	There's just so much content these days, right?
0:13.0	So much to consume.
0:15.0	Sometimes it's hard to know where to start.
0:18.0	Where do you put your precious attention? Well, I'll tell you, you put it
0:25.6	here. BBC Radio 4's award-winning thriller, The System, returns for a third and final season.
0:32.9	Maya and Jake, once close siblings, are now divided in a divided world.
0:38.3	But their paths are about to collide.
0:40.3	Jake, I think someone's trying to kill me.
0:42.3	What?
0:43.3	I think someone is trying to kill me.
0:46.3	Did you just roll your eyes at me?
0:50.3	And when an immersive online game spills into the real world.
0:53.3	Attention, heroes.
0:56.0	You have a mission.
0:57.0	Welcome to Reality 2.0.
1:00.0	What's wrong with actual reality?
1:02.0	You can't shoot people on the street?
1:04.0	It becomes clear that this is a fight for survival.
1:07.0	If you're watching this, it probably means something bad has happened to me. Who will win? The richest 1%?
1:12.6	If we do this right, we can make ourselves a paradise right here on Earth, or even better on Mars.
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