In Tether, the Sitri Institute’s dream experiments unravel into ritual, where science and submission blur into one hypnotic descent. As researchers and subjects merge, the maze of consciousness reveals who was truly in control all along.

Inside the Sitri Institute, Meg and Tessa uncover a network of corridors mapped to ancient cities, where dream experiments cross into ritual. Descendent follows their fall from scientific distance into belief, as the dream itself begins to take control.

Cusp explores the liminal edges of the Sitri Institute - a space between dreams, control, and transformation.
Elle, Meg, and Tessa navigate the blurred thresholds of consciousness while Lyra’s descent reveals what lies between fear and desire.

“Gazes Back” drops straight into a loop that won’t stay entertainment. Elle’s “puppet show” is captured and converted, until intention phrases start to steer the scene. The reckoning is clinical. Roles are “aligned,” edits surface, and what looked like control reads like confession. The loop holds, even when you’re the one who built it.

Elle Lawson’s paralysis dreams bring new intensity to Sitri’s experiments. Monitored by Meg Aerin, Elle describes figures at the foot of her bed: succubi, incubi, shadows that feel all too real. As devotion patterns emerge, June Lowell warns that the program is straying into dangerous territory.

The team’s ambitions are tested against the inexorable pull of sleep and submission.

Phoebe’s trial escalates as the dream chamber reveals more than the researchers anticipated. Tessa doubles down on her belief in adaptive mastery, while Meg exposes the dangers of conflating resilience with compulsion. The staff’s rivalry sharpens into wagers of authority, and the subject becomes a mirror for their ambitions. What begins as therapy now feels like rehearsal for something darker.

The Sitri Center opens its first trial with subject Phoebe Bosworth, whose vivid humiliation dreams are transformed into case data. Researchers Tessa Finn and Meg Aerin clash over methodology, sparring between optimism and skepticism as Phoebe’s subconscious loops intensify. Clinical ambition collides with raw desire, setting the tone for a program where research and ritual blur.

The finale binds everything together. Chains, contracts, and compulsions seal fates as illusions of play collapse into ritual permanence. Friendships dissolve, identities unravel, and the Deep Dream State asserts total control.

Rewards and humiliations stack as the season reaches its breaking point. Contestants scramble for dominance, alliances fracture, and the audience’s gaze sharpens. The game teeters between spectacle and sacrifice, forcing everyone to show how far they’ll go to win.

Masks, doubles, and deceptions define the next trial. Contestants are forced to inhabit false versions of themselves, while Kitty and Bella shape outcomes behind the scenes. Truth and performance blur, leaving no one sure who is acting and who is compelled.

The contestants are issued uncanny uniforms that reshape identity as much as appearance. Hannah and Ashley’s bond deepens under pressure, while rivalries grow sharper. The Council tightens its grip, pushing players toward choices that feel more like commands.

Contestants gather in a glass mansion where every secret is visible. The AI host April introduces games of exposure, while past winner Kitty meddles with the new season. The house becomes a crucible of surveillance, trust, and betrayal.

Violet Verdier enters the Institute seeking therapy but finds herself caught in rituals that blur treatment and initiation. Sessions with Dr. Lilly shift from grounding exercises to dreamlike compulsions, hinting at the wider games she’s unknowingly stepped into.

Storm and spiral converge in a climactic descent. Dreams coil tighter, rituals peak, and passengers are swept into forces beyond control. The voyage ends where it began - in surrender to a storm that may already be coming.

Darkness gathers beneath the Chthonic as the crew confronts secrets too long submerged. Friendships fray, loyalties falter, and the weight of ancient bargains presses heavily on all aboard. The undergloom rises, and it will not be ignored.

Patterns repeat across ship and sea. Geometric dreams, fractal symbols, tessellating visions. The party becomes a labyrinth of sound and image, where guests risk losing themselves to repeating cycles. Every design has its cost, and every piece its place.

Ceremonies of binding surface as garters, symbols, and contracts reveal deeper bargains with the abyss. Characters struggle between debt, devotion, and desire, caught in the web of obligations that blur service and sacrifice.

Shower begins with Amanda and Brittany drifting through foggy thoughts and memories. They are unsure what is dream and what is real. The listener is pulled into the same space of uncertainty, except for one undeniable detail: the tentacles are very, very real.

What follows is a sequence of rituals and revelations that tie their personal disorientation to a wider pattern. Myths of brides of the sea return like half-remembered lullabies. Forgotten gods and rituals of cleansing surface in ordinary spaces, transforming the simple act of bathing into something sacred and unsettling.

Elsewhere, Sarah and Kara stumble across fragments of hidden lore. They piece together ceremonies of binding and trace the shape of a looming figure known only as the Old Groom. Each discovery suggests that the voyage is less about travel and more about surrender to forces that have always been waiting beneath the surface.

By the end of the episode, Shower makes clear that this is not renewal but erasure. Memory and identity are stripped away, leaving the crew caught between comfort in forgetting and terror in understanding what they have become.

The Tunngavik site opens, exposing runes and passages no one was meant to walk. The bachelorette party strays from safety, plunging into hidden chambers. Bonds between friends and lovers begin to fracture as the ship’s fragile order comes apart.

Selene draws the girls into the instrument room, where whale songs and abyssal murmurs hint at deeper mysteries. Secrets blur with dreams, and the veil between worlds begins to thin. What they hear may be more than song; it may be a summons.