What is Foundation about?
Follow a band of exiles on their monumental journey to save humanity and rebuild civilization amid the fall of the Galactic Empire.
Exiles embark on an epic, measured journey to rebuild civilization as a galactic empire dramatically falls.
Suspenseful and cerebral. A late-night trip at a measured pace. Emotionally it is heavy.
Streaming on Apple TV+.
Foundation parents guide
Moderate sex and nudity, and some violence, about what a TV-MA should carry.
- Scare
- Not scary
- Jump scares
- None noted
- Gore
- No gore
- Violence
- Some violence
- Some fighting or peril.
- Sex and nudity
- Moderate
- Moderate means a sex scene or nudity on screen, even brief, or sexual violence that is described or implied but never shown.
- Language
- Mild
- Mild words like damn, hell or crap.
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Cast and crew
Created byDavid S. Goyer, Josh Friedman
StarringJared Harris, Lee Pace, Lou Llobell, Laura Birn, Cassian Bilton, Terrence Mann
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