It’s great to find out how summer allows us to do all the things we didn’t have time for the rest of the year. From coming to terms with it hobby that we parked for a long time, delving into all those books that were recommended to us during the year, or rekindling a forgotten passion for video games, the possibilities are almost endless.

And yes, it can also be the perfect time to sit at home on the couch, knowing that we don’t have to get up early the next day, so we can start a serial marathon without any worries. We’re sure you’ve probably missed out on some highly recommended titles, so today we want to suggest five “tech” series to fill your August afternoons with.

Termination fee (Apple TV+)

Severance is not only one of the great series of this year, but it is probably one of the best sci-fi series in history. A seemingly simple approach actually hides an addictive plot.

In Severance, Mark Scout leads a team at Lumon Industries whose employees have undergone a separation procedure that surgically splits their memories between their work and personal lives so that a chip in their brain causes the workers to completely forget what they’ve done. at work every time he leaves the office, etc. once their workday begins, they are unable to retain any personal memory.

Beyond the technology component, the series is right in its condemnation of toxic corporate environments that dehumanize and isolate people.

Love, Death + Robots (Netflix)

Netflix is ​​often said to be a platform where quantity prevails over quality. And while that’s true to an extent, it’s also the platform that supports the most indie projects, many of which wouldn’t have been released on any other platform.

And here one of the most interesting is “Love, Death + Robots”, a series that completed its third season this year and which in separate chapters Between 5 and 20 minutes, it facilitates directors and creators from around the world to reflect on fiction about the current and future impact that robotics and artificial intelligence will have on our lives. And there’s a place for everything: from a smart vacuum cleaner with killer instincts to robots ready to save humanity from itself. Jewel.

The Developers (HBO Max)

Lily and Sergei are a young couple of computer engineers who work for Amaya, a pioneering technology company led by Forest, who, in addition to being the CEO, has the classic identifying features of the tech guru with a vision that can make the world a “better place”. “

The action begins when he is promoted to work in top secret development department. Apart from the name suggesting development, no one but a handful of people who have access know what Devs are… and as we find out, they tell us about the time when humanity’s “great leap” to the scientific-technological level is being prepared.

For All Mankind (Apple TV+)

Few historical events have led to a greater deployment of innovation and new technology than the space race. A space race that might actually be a lot more interesting if it never ended.

This is exactly the plot from which “For All Mankind” begins, a series that represents what would happen next The Soviet Union would succeed in its first man landing on the moon (a month before Apollo 11) and therefore history would not have happened as we were told.

A series that begins with American defeatism and goes into a second season in the 1980s where things get a lot more interesting. Don’t miss it.

The Upload (Amazon Prime Video)

We end our summer recommendation with a comedy. And so it is that although “The Upload” deals with issues that are ultimately quite serious, thanks to its light and fun tone one of the fictions of the year on the Amazon platform.

The series, which premiered its second season this year, tells us about a future in which those who resist dying can “upload” their consciousness into a virtual universe (stored on huge servers) in which they have the opportunity to live a second life… if they are willing pay what it costs.

With a script that deals with concepts that go from artificial intelligence to virtual reality, but also many problems of current technologies, such as microtransactions, subscriptions to almost everything, SPAM or technological assistants that are not as smart as we think, the series is of course novel a look at the world of technology, framed in a story that also has a touch of mystery.