A comedy-drama about consciousness, ambition,
and the question
machines can't answer
A young Polish quantum physicist wins the Nobel Prize for a theory that bridges consciousness and quantum mechanics. His rival — a Stanford laureate whose life's work says the theory is impossible — discovers that three months of trying to destroy it only made it stronger.
The ó is a Polish diacritical mark. One character announces that this story comes from Poland. No American writer would invent this title. The ó is authentic — it cannot be faked.
In Polish, ó is a closed u — it sounds like one thing but is written as another. Like superposition: the state that is both until observed. The show's central metaphor, encoded in a single character.
Visually, ó resembles a fertilized cell — an ovum with a single line of origin. The show is about the birth of a theory, the birth of a new kind of scientist, the birth of something between fiction and reality.
16 development documents — full Season 1 ready for production