Hi, I'm Michael and welcome to what we're watching, Beyond the Screenplay's patron

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Today we are talking about the first two episodes of Foundation, the Apple TV Plus series.

I'm joined by the Beyond the Screenplay team,

Tricia Aran. Hello, everyone. Brian Bittner. Hello, hello. And Alex Galleros. Hi.

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So foundation, the first two episodes have dropped. And so it's a sci-fi series, and the plot is really interesting and unique.

I'm trying to even figure out how I would summarize it, but basically, Jared Harris, who I love always, plays this character named Harry Selden, and he's developed something called Psychohistory

where he can predict the future of big societies, basically.

We're like, you can't predict the future of individuals,

because individuals are too random,

but at macro scales, in the sci-fi future,

you can predict how empires will trend

and will they fall and all this stuff.

And so it's him and his followers kind of trying to not even stop the fall from happening,

but shorten the dark ages that will be coming as kind of the big premise.

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