Solos (TV series)
Solos is an American dramatic anthology television miniseries created by David Weil and produced by Amazon Studios. It stars Morgan Freeman, Anne Hathaway, Helen Mirren, Uzo Aduba, Anthony Mackie, Constance Wu, Dan Stevens and Nicole Beharie. The seven-episode series premiered on May 21, 2021 on Amazon Prime Video in UK, United States, Australia, Canada, Ireland, India, New Zealand and later that year in additional territories.
Premise
The series questions what it means to be human, arguing that we are connected to others through shared experiences, even in our most isolated moments.Cast
- Morgan Freeman as Stuart, a patient in an Alzheimer's facility, later revealed to be a memory thief/junkie. His confirmed thefts are Leah, Tom, Peg, Sasha, and Otto, whose memories he stole when Otto was a child, amongst hundreds of other victims. Freeman's character narrates the beginning of each episode and appears in his own
- Anne Hathaway as Leah, a scientist in 2024 trying to attempt time travel using "the Cauchy horizon"
- Anthony Mackie as Tom, an angry businessman who is later revealed to be the adoptive father of Peg. He also plays a robot designed to replace him when he dies
- Helen Mirren as Peg, a senior citizen who joins a space program because she felt invisible. Tom is her adoptive father
- Uzo Aduba as Sasha, a woman who has lived in her smart house for 20 years and thinks it is trying to trick her to leave
- Constance Wu as Jenny, a self-loathing, self-destructive woman who is in a waiting room and doesn't know why
- Nicole Beharie as Nera, a pregnant woman who gives birth during a blizzard lockdown to a son who ages quickly
- Dan Stevens as Otto, an NHS worker who steals a cure for Stuart to repair his Alzheimer's, later revealed that Stuart stole all his memories as a child on the day his mother died. Stevens also voices Tym, the AI Space Shuttle in Peg's episode
Co-starring
- Hannah Dunne as the voice of Leah's sister Rachel
- Carol Smolinsky as the voice of Leah's mother
- Jack Quaid as the voice of Zen, Sasha's smart house
- Sanaa Lathan as Nia, Sasha's best friend
- Chris Diamantopoulos as the technician downloading Jenny's memories
- James Monroe Iglehart as the voice of the supervising technician overseeing the procedure
- Jacob is played by McCarrie McCausland at 15, Sephen Gray at 2, Percy Daggs IV at 6, and Andre Robinson at 11