Public Access Afterworld

The narrative acts as a culmination of Schoenbrun’s "Screen Trilogy" (which includes their films We're All Going to the World's Fair and I Saw the TV Glow). The sprawling, multi-decade mystery begins in 1988 when a Dallas weatherman cryptically mentions "Public Access Afterworld" before committing suicide on live television. In 2009, two lonely, TV-obsessed teens witness a surreal pirate broadcast within the static of the analog-to-digital television transition. Seventeen years later, Bethany Peters—a trans content moderator working night shifts for a megacorp in Austin—discovers a young streamer invoking the exact same realm. Bethany must delve into a bizarre, interdimensional alternate reality trapped behind analog screens to save its victims and herself from an electric hell.