The Left Right Game

Tessa Thompson stars as Alice Sharman, an idealistic journalist who follows a group of paranormal explorers investigating a strange phenomenon: if you make a specific sequence of left and right turns on a back road, you end up somewhere that should not exist. The premise sounds simple, but Jack Anderson's writing takes it to genuinely unsettling places. The story unfolds through Alice's recorded documentation, which gives the whole thing an intimate, found-footage quality. Thompson is terrific in the role -- her Alice is smart and skeptical but also in way over her head, which makes the supernatural elements hit harder when they arrive. Emma Tammi's direction keeps the pacing tight across 14 episodes, even when the mythology gets complex. The sound design deserves special mention. Qcode productions always sound polished, but The Left Right Game uses its soundscape to create genuinely disorienting moments that mess with your sense of space. It earned a 4.5-star rating from over 5,000 reviews, and after a bidding war, Amazon picked it up for a TV adaptation. That kind of industry attention tells you something about the quality of the source material. The ending is deliberately ambiguous, which will either thrill or frustrate you depending on your temperament.