Created by Alex Garcia Lopez Original language(s) English | Country of origin Great Britain | |
Genre MysterySerial dramaScience fictionSupernatural Starring Natalia Tena as Jennifer PrestonIwan Rheon as Jonas FlackJamie Draven as Levi MathisDanny Webb as Emeril BenedictFranz Drameh as Willy GAdrian Schiller as DS 'Fat Freddy' PierceEleanor Matsuura as Angela RossiBrian Ferguson as Dickie PrinceEmilia Jones as Charlotte JonesTom Goodman-Hill as Keller Composer(s) Al Hardiman (original music) | ||
Residue is a British television series released by Netflix on March 31, 2015. The three-part series is directed by Alex Garcia Lopez, known for his work on series including Misfits and Utopia. Residue is a futuristic sci-fi thriller, which is centered on the life of photo-journalist Jennifer Preston after a mysterious explosion in the city center of a dystopian metropolis. The series has been dubbed into Spanish, German and French. Filming took place in Hong Kong, London and Yorkshire.
After a huge explosion in a nightclub on New Year's Eve, the government quarantines a large area of the city, citing a bioweapon contamination. Photo-journalist Jennifer Preston investigates a series of subsequent mysterious events occurring in the surrounding regions of this unnamed English metropolis. She encounters a web of lies concerning paranormal phenomena emanating from the quarantine zone, which the government is trying to keep secret.
Episode 1 After an explosion tears apart an English city, photo-journalist Jennifer Preston notices people acting strangely, and ghostly images in her pictures.
Episode 2 Jennifer has trouble convincing her boyfriend Jonas of the ghostly phenomena until he learns that his colleagues at the Home Office have lied to him.
Episode 3 When Jonas vanishes and police officer Levi Mathis becomes the prime suspect in a murder, Jennifer discovers that the conspiracy is greater than she ever imagined.