This AMC Adult Animated Show With 100% On Rotten Tomatoes Is Now Streaming On Netflix For Fans Of Arcane & Terminator Zero

Pantheon, an animated series perfect for fans of Arcane and Terminator Zero, is now streaming on Netflix. Arcane and Terminator Zero's reviews are overwhelmingly positive, including Arcane boasting a perfect 100% Tomatometer score on Rotten Tomatoes across its two-season run. Meanwhile, the anime Terminator Zero series is widely considered to be the best new story that the long-running Terminator franchise has released in years.

Pantheon has also been incredibly well-received, leading to a 100% Tomatometer score and 94% Popcornmeter score on Rotten Tomatoes. The impressive cast of Pantheon features Paul Dano, Aaron Eckhart, Daniel Dae Kim, William Hurt, and Rosemarie DeWitt. Arcane and Terminator Zero are among the best Netflix shows that are animated and geared towards a more adult audience, but Pantheon is able to rival them in many respects.

AMC's Pantheon Is Now On Netflix – What The Show Is About

Human Consciousness Can Live On Through Uploaded Intelligence

An image of Maddie looking up whiler her father, David, smiles at her in the animated show, Pantheon.

Pantheon season 1, which originally aired on AMC, is now available to stream on Netflix. The series begins by following Maddie Kim (Katie Chang), a teenager struggling with being bullied and grieving the loss of her father, David Kim (Kim), who passed away two years earlier. When Maddie is helped by a mysterious figure online, she learns that it is her father, whose consciousness has been digitally uploaded, allowing him to live on after his demise. David's consciousness being digitally uploaded is part of the work that the corporation Logorhythms has been conducting after the death of their founder, Stephen Holostrom (Hurt).

As Logorhythms tries to complete Holstrom's vision for Uploaded Intelligence, also known as UI, a brooding and brilliant teenager, Caspian Keyes (Dano), is being monitored by Logorhythms, and the engineer, Vinod Chanda (Raza Jaffrey), is killed and has his consciousness uploaded against his will. The digital worlds where the UI exists go beyond the limits of reality, with some of them being reminiscent of Arcane's fantasy. In reality and in these fantastical digital worlds, Maddie, David, Caspian, and Vinod become entangled in a complex web as the future of humanity and technology are forever changed.

Pantheon Talks About The Relationship Between Humanity & Technology — But It's Way More Complicated Than Terminator

Humanity Largely Becomes Technology In Pantheon

Like Terminator Zero, Pantheon explores the relationship between humanity and technology, albeit in a much more complex fashion. David and Vinod having their consciousnesses uploaded after their deaths is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Uploaded Intelligence. The technology is a double-edged sword, with some of its positive elements first showcased in how a father and daughter are able to reunite and continue building their relationship even after the father's premature death. Maddie and David are not the only relationship able to live on due to Pantheon's UI.

It is not just about humans' relationship with technology, but about what sentience is in such a technologically advanced world.

However, Uploaded Intelligence becomes more complex and more dangerous when it becomes accessible to powerful people and institutions across the globe. The Terminator movies explore how humanity uses and is connected to technology, for better and for worse. Pantheon explores this as well, but becomes more complex by questioning what it means when humans become technology, as David, Vinod, and other characters do when their consciousnesses are digitally uploaded. It is not just about humans' relationship with technology, but about what sentience is in such a technologically advanced world.

Why Pantheon Was Canceled

It Was Purely For Financial Reasons

Maddie looking at a screen in surprise in Pantheon

Despite the critical acclaim and having a two-season order at AMC, the network canceled Pantheon and pulled it from their streaming service after one season. According to Deadline, Pantheon was canceled as part of AMC's initiative to cut costs.This is, unfortunately, only one of many cases in recent years when a series was canceled and then removed from a streaming platform for the sake of studios getting tax write-offs and cutting costs. When Pantheon's cancelation was announced, season 2 had already been produced and was initially not going to be released.

Demascus and Invitation to a Bonfire are among the other shows that AMC canceled and removed from AMC+.

Pantheon season 2 was later picked up and released by Prime Video in Australia and New Zealand in 2023 before season 1 eventually became available to stream on Netflix. The perfect Tomatometer score speaks for itself and the show's underrated quality can now be seen by a wider range of audiences. With Arcane now ended, there is even more reason to watch Pantheon, whichis a timely, imaginative, and thought-provoking story about humanity's relationship with technology.

Source: Rotten Tomatoes, Rotten Tomatoes, Deadline