What to read, watch, and listen to if you lovedThe Future
Naomi Alderman · Book · 2025
If you loved The Future, start with The Assessment (Fleur Fortuné, 2025) — a film on the same thread. Below: 4 films, 4 series and 2 podcasts, each matched to The Future across media.
If you loved The Future, you crave stories where high-stakes corporate power clashes with individual survival in our precarious, technology-driven era.
Films on the same thread
The Assessment
Fleur Fortuné · Film · 2025
Shares a thread with The Future: Cli-Fi.
Like The Future, this explores the intersection of climate crisis and institutional control, focusing on how a society optimizes human life through rigid, high-tech systems of evaluation.
The Running Man
Edgar Wright · Film · 2025
Explores: Corporate Control, Media Manipulation, Survival Against the Odds.
You will recognize the critique of media manipulation and wealth inequality found in The Future, as this story pits a desperate individual against the ruthless machinery of corporations.
The Housemaid
Paul Feig · Film · 2025
Explores: Class Conflict, Gaslighting, Identity Theft.
This domestic thriller mirrors the power dynamics and class conflict of The Future, showing how secrets and scandals unravel when one is trapped within the orbit of the ultra-wealthy.
Bugonia
Yorgos Lanthimos · Film · 2025
Explores: Alien Conspiracy, Corporate Paranoia, Mistaken Identity.
Much like the corporate satire in The Future, this film captures the paranoid intensity of confronting a powerful CEO who is perceived as a threat to humanity's existence.
Series on the same thread
Your Friends & Neighbors
Jonathan Tropper · Series · 2025
Shares a thread with The Future: wealth inequality.
This show echoes the exploration of wealth inequality present in The Future, following a man who dismantles his own social circle to survive the collapse of his financial status.
Pluribus
Vince Gilligan · Series · 2025
Explores: Existential dread, The cost of happiness, Reluctant hero.
If you appreciated the dark, satirical take on societal salvation in The Future, you will enjoy this cynical look at a world where happiness is a manufactured, enforced commodity.
The Handmaid's Tale
Bruce Miller · Series · 2017
Explores: Oppression, Totalitarianism, Religious Extremism.
This shares the chilling, systemic oppression found in The Future, focusing on how individuals navigate life under the thumb of a powerful, dogmatic, and all-controlling regime.
The Peripheral
Scott B. Smith · Series · 2022
Shares a thread with The Future: Techno-Thriller.
This mirrors the techno-thriller elements of The Future by placing a relatable protagonist at the center of a corporate conspiracy that uses advanced technology to reshape human reality.
Podcasts on the same thread
The Deca Tapes
Lex Noteboom · Podcast · 2025
Like the isolated, high-stakes environment in The Future, this podcast creates a sense of claustrophobic tension as characters are forced to find answers while trapped in an unknown space.
The Realignment
The Realignment · Podcast · 2026
Explores: institutional change, populism, technological disruption.
This podcast provides the real-world intellectual framework for the themes of technological disruption and institutional change that drive the narrative of The Future.
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Common questions
Is The Future a story about a cult?
The Future follows Martha Einkorn, who flees her father's isolated cult compound in Oregon. While she escapes that environment, she finds herself entangled with a powerful social media mogul who manages mega-rich companies and uses technological prophecy to influence the world.
What kind of technology does the mogul control in The Future?
In The Future, the social media mogul oversees companies that design advanced technology, including predictive analytics, private weather systems, and covert weaponry. These tools are used to exert control over global systems while the mogul promotes apocalyptic warnings.
Does Martha Einkorn work for a tech company in The Future?
Yes, after leaving her father's cult, Martha Einkorn begins working for a powerful social media mogul. Her role places her at the center of a world dominated by mega-rich corporations that utilize predictive analytics and weaponry to shape the future.
Does The Future involve apocalyptic themes?
The Future centers on a powerful mogul who utilizes technological prophecy to issue apocalyptic warnings. Martha Einkorn must navigate these warnings and the influence of the mogul's mega-rich companies, which are actively designing systems to control the world.