I've recommended Andor several times over and if I can get you to watch one show it would be that one.
However, there's another show called Pantheon that I've started watching recently. It's animated and has some interesting premises and some largely believable (save for one or two core conceits) computer science stuff in it. There should be content warnings for mentions of suicide, (technically consentual) physical abuse of a partner in front of family, one scene of brain surgery, and potentially other warnings further in the series, but if you can get past all that I think the show is worth watching.
I first heard of it because I follow Katie Mitroff on bird site who did storyboards for Steven Universe and also worked on this. It's an adult animated TV show, but in the way that Akira is adult, rather than the way Rick and Morty is adult. It has a surprising cast, its art reminds me of anime shows like Beastars or Mob Psycho 100 (at least the at-school parts), and the whole show is in English.
The entire season is available on AMC+ (which allows a 7-day free trial) and the first episode is also available elsewhere like Prime Video. Spoilers below:
Finished season 1 (the only season released so far) and I really enjoyed it. I was surprised and delighted at how the show was able to explore complex themes about humanity and tech futurism while still presenting several complex and opposing perspectives with integrity. The virtual reality backdrops also allowed for some fun flexing on the animation side here and there.
It was wild how many shows and movies we'd watched in the last handful of years that had overlapping themes or premises. Media like Severance, Devs, Her, Ex Machina, The Truman Show, Tales from the Loop, or Foundation all had overlap, but I tended to like this writing more than most all of those.
I'd highly recommend this if you want an interesting yet surprisingly grounded show about the consequences of uploaded intelligence
this is the first i heard that Pantheon's second season got cancelled (despite being in production!) and that it got pulled from AMC+. i really enjoyed it and it's obviously disappointing to hear that it's not getting the continuation it deserved and was promised, let alone that it's now Unavailable Through Legal Means.
strongly recommend watching it, with the content warnings @graham gave earlier. can say from experience that it's pretty easy to find in Other Places.
