A CineVerge Vertical Series
The Test
Psychological Survival Thriller
Created by Christopher C. Odom
Cast: Arnita Epps-Wood, Leslie A. Jones, Lance Moseley, Kelli Dawn Hancock, Michael Tabb, Ronald Diltz II, John Patrick Nelson, Christopher C. Odom
In Production
When Mara Quinn is trapped inside a clandestine program of life-or-death moral tests, she must overcome the Proctor, the Chancellor and an institution designed to make contestants sacrifice one another, in order to escape without surrendering her humanity, by exploiting the exact language of the Test’s rules against the people enforcing them. “The rules are the trap. The rules are also the way out.”
Mara survives increasingly cruel choices involving survival, trust, truth and power while learning that wealthy clients use the Test to identify people capable of brutal decisions under pressure. She wants freedom but refuses to become what the institution rewards. Her alliance, the Proctor’s divided loyalties and the Chancellor’s offer of institutional power culminate in Mara using the Test’s own rules to turn the system against itself.
Season One | 100 short episodes | Vertical 9:16 phone format | Approximately 60-90 seconds each |
