Overview
- Two episodes and a trailer premiered January 29 on Time’s YouTube channel, with weekly installments planned through 2026 to coincide with specific Revolutionary-era anniversaries.
- The series is produced by Darren Aronofsky’s AI studio Primordial Soup in collaboration with Google DeepMind, with TIME Studios serving as distributor.
- Producers describe the effort as artist-led use of generative tools intended to expand storytelling possibilities rather than replace craft.
- Viewers and critics flagged visible AI artifacts, including deformed hands, off-kilter lip sync, and garbled on-screen text such as a misspelled “America,” with social posts ridiculing the visuals.
- The episodes use union voice actors and an original score, and the production cites Salesforce support and Slack-based collaboration across a dispersed creative team.