The Alex Project season 1

The Alex Project
Season 1
File:The Alex Project S1 poster.png Promotional poster
Showrunner	Alex Brow
Starring	Alex Brow Sophia Lillis Justice Smith Ben Barnes Jessica Barden Owen Teague
No. of episodes	8
Release
Original network	Netflix
Original release	November 28, 2025 (2025-11-28)

The Alex Project is an upcoming psychological mystery–drama television series created by Alex Brow, set to premiere worldwide on Netflix on November 28, 2025. The series follows a fictionalized version of Brow himself, blending personal introspection, psychological tension, and surreal realism into a grounded exploration of identity, perception, and the blurring of memory and truth.

The show stars Alex Brow alongside Sophia Lillis, Justice Smith, Ben Barnes, Jessica Barden, and Owen Teague. The first season will consist of eight episodes and is co-produced by Brow’s creative label, VibeFrame Productions, in association with Netflix and Air Studios.

Premise

Set in 2025, The Alex Project centers on a struggling creator who begins documenting his daily life through a private digital journal. When fragments of his recordings start appearing online—edited, distorted, and showing events that never happened—he becomes obsessed with uncovering who (or what) is reconstructing his reality. As his memories begin to fracture, he must confront whether he’s the author of the mystery or its subject.

The series explores ideas of creative identity, self-perception, and the consequences of being watched—blending psychological drama with elements of metafiction and analog horror.

Cast and characters

Main cast

• Alex Brow as Himself
• Sophia Lillis as Elara Quinn
• Justice Smith as Damon Rho
• Ben Barnes as Dr. Holden Vale
• Jessica Barden as Mara Ellis
• Owen Teague as Finn Calder

Recurring

• Sosie Bacon as Riley Ward
• Rory Culkin as Theo Grange
• Kaitlyn Dever as Ava Wynn
• Clarke Peters as Father Myles
• Julian Richings as The Archivist
• Nico Parker as Young Mara (flashbacks)

Episodes

Main article: List of The Alex Project episodes

No. Overall	No. in Season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date
1	1	"Episode One: Mirror Feed"	Alex Brow	Alex Brow	November 28, 2025
The premiere episode opens with Alex Brow narrating a short monologue over footage of a flickering camera feed. He explains that he began recording his life “to feel real again.” The camera pans across his dimly lit workspace—screens, notebooks, half-finished scripts, and a looping video file that glitches every few seconds. When he rewinds it, the clip briefly shows a moment that never happened: himself standing in a different outfit, speaking words he doesn’t remember saying. Alex uploads the recording to a private drive under the project name "Mirror Feed." Hours later, he receives a notification—his video has been reposted online by an anonymous account, edited to include a distorted voice repeating fragments of his narration. When he tries to delete it, the file reappears under a new title: “ALEX BROW: ENTRY ONE.” Seeking clarity, Alex turns to his friend Elara Quinn (Sophia Lillis), a documentary filmmaker who suspects the breach is internal. She helps him audit his devices, but discovers identical video fragments stored on equipment Alex swears he never owned. The pair notice small inconsistencies—different timestamps, reversed sound, and reflections that don’t match the footage. Meanwhile, Damon Rho (Justice Smith), an audio engineer Alex previously worked with, contacts him after noticing the same corrupted file spreading across private servers. Damon decodes the embedded waveform and discovers a hidden message: “KEEP RECORDING.” As Alex begins losing track of which moments he’s filmed and which he’s imagined, his private journals start autofilling with entries written in his own tone but describing events days before they occur. The episode ends as he replays the original clip once more. This time, the distorted version of himself turns directly toward the camera and whispers, “You’re not the one filming anymore.”
2	2	"Episode Two: Playback Drift"	Alex Brow	Alex Brow	November 28, 2025
The second episode opens with Alex watching hours of his own footage in a dark editing suite. Each clip appears slightly altered—the sound delayed, movements looping back for a fraction of a second. He attempts to re-sync the files, but the editing software freezes every time he reaches a frame where his reflection should appear. When playback resumes, the reflection moves independently. Elara begins cataloguing the corrupted footage, creating timestamps to compare the original and reposted versions. In one, a background clock shows a time that hasn’t occurred yet. In another, Alex’s dialogue shifts mid-sentence into words he insists he never spoke. They discover a brief frame buried between cuts showing an unfamiliar room filled with stacked CRT televisions, all tuned to static. Meanwhile, Damon isolates an audio anomaly buried in the file’s noise floor. When slowed down, it forms a coherent sequence of numbers—GPS coordinates that lead to an abandoned broadcast tower outside the city. The trio visits the site at night, finding evidence of recent use: generator fuel, empty reels, and a digital recorder still powered on, capturing their own voices before they arrive. As they leave, Alex notices a repeating pattern in the static that seems to mirror his heartbeat. The group splits up after Damon insists the signal is reacting to Alex directly. That night, Alex records a personal confession to camera—an attempt to explain what’s happening. The video cuts mid-sentence, and when it resumes, his posture and tone have changed. He ends the recording with a phrase he doesn’t remember saying: “You’re already watching this tomorrow.”
3	3	TBA	TBA	TBA	November 28, 2025
4	4	TBA	TBA	TBA	November 28, 2025
5	5	TBA	TBA	TBA	November 28, 2025
6	6	TBA	TBA	TBA	November 28, 2025
7	7	TBA	TBA	TBA	November 28, 2025
8	8	TBA	TBA	TBA	November 28, 2025

Production

Development

The Alex Project was conceived by Alex Brow as a deeply personal psychological drama exploring the disintegration of self-identity under modern technological pressure. Drawing from Brow’s own creative and emotional experiences, the series was written as a semi-autobiographical fiction blending metafictional storytelling, horror, and grounded realism.

The project entered development under Brow’s label, VibeFrame Productions, in early 2024. Brow described the tone as “introspective paranoia meets digital ghost story,” emphasizing analog sound design, lo-fi textures, and surreal editing techniques over heavy CGI or spectacle. The series was announced by Netflix in mid-2025 as part of its “Visionary Voices” lineup of international originals.

Writing

Brow and his writing team approached the first season as an eight-episode psychological descent, written in three acts: observation, reflection, and collapse. Each episode reportedly shifts narrative perspective, blurring the line between documented reality and the protagonist’s fragmented memories. The scripts were described by Brow as “part confession, part distortion,” mirroring the show’s meta themes of self-construction and digital permanence.

Casting

Casting began in late 2024. Brow was confirmed to star as a version of himself, portraying both the creator and the subject of the experiment. Sophia Lillis joined as Elara Quinn, a close confidant drawn into his unraveling investigation. Justice Smith, Ben Barnes, Jessica Barden, and Owen Teague round out the main ensemble, portraying characters who represent contrasting aspects of perception, doubt, and self.