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Dead at 21

Don't trust anyone

  • 1994
  • Ended
  • Sci-Fi & Fantasy
  • ~28m / ep
  • 1 season
  • 6.7/10

Dead at 21 is a television series broadcast by MTV in 1994. The series ran for eleven thirty-minute episodes with a two-part final episode. The series was created by Jon Sherman, and written by Sherman, P.K. Simonds and Manny Coto.

Latest: Season 1 · 1994

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  1. E1. Dead at 21

    Jun 15, 1994

    The victim of a government experiment to create superintelligent humans learns the cause of the strange dreams he has been having—and that he will self-destruct by his 21st birthday unless he finds the scientist who ""created"" him by implanting a chip in his brain. He becomes a fugitive when he and Maria, a girl who crashed his 20th birthday party, are accused of killing another ""cyb"" actually shot by a government agent named Winston, bent on tracking down all the cybs and killing them. Ed's only hope for survival is a doctor who worked on the project, Victor Heisenberg.

  2. E2. Brain Salad

    Jun 22, 1994

    Ed checks into a hospital for brain surgery, and learns disheartening news about Victor Heisenberg.

  3. E3. Love Minus Zero

    Jun 29, 1994

    Ed and Maria meet a cyb who wants to run away with them, but is ignorant of her condition.

  4. E4. Shock the Monkey

    Jul 6, 1994

    Ed and Maria search for Victor Heisenberg's grave and become involved with animal-rights activists.

  5. E5. Gone Daddy Gone

    Jul 13, 1994

    Maria's con-artist father tracks her down.

  6. E6. Use Your Illusion

    Jul 20, 1994

    Ed and Maria find their exploits chronicled in a comic book created by a cyb who's plotting to kill the senator in charge of the neurocybernetics project.

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