Gaslight

One of Qcode's earliest productions, Gaslight stars Chloe Grace Moretz as a young woman whose childhood best friend Danny suddenly reappears after vanishing during senior year. Turns out Danny has been in a cult, and the reunion is anything but a simple catch-up. Amandla Stenberg, Taran Killam, John Gallagher Jr., and Penelope Ann Miller round out a strong cast. Miles Joris-Peyrafitte wrote and directed this 10-episode first season, and the episodes run a brisk 10 to 17 minutes each. That tight runtime works in the show's favor -- each installment drops a new piece of the puzzle and cuts away before you have time to process it. The psychological tension builds effectively as the line between helping a friend and being manipulated becomes increasingly blurry. The show earned a 3.7-star rating from over 3,300 reviews, with the lower score largely reflecting listener frustration that the season ends on a cliffhanger with no resolution in sight. A companion novel was eventually released in 2024 that fills in some gaps. As a standalone season, Gaslight is a well-acted, briskly paced psychological thriller that benefits from not trying to be bigger than it needs to be. The cult dynamics feel uncomfortably plausible.