Welcome to Paradox

- Season 1

(1998)

A holographic Blessed Virgin appears to those who refuse to give money to a mysterious religions order. Everyone who gets such a visit dies - this "religious order" seems more like the Mafia - you cooperate or else.

Two researchers compete to create the "perfect human." The more desperate scientist experiments on himself, leading to disaster for all, including a third scientist - his wife.

This prison has a unique way to keep inmates from breaking out: a chip implant which literally puts an offender in a holographic hell. A prison system official witnesses this barbaric treatment, but somehow doesn't see it as torture.

Mr. K. is an old-school detective who has been tasked to find a mysterious man who has a list of names someone wants. Mr. K encounters sinister characters, an alluring artist and the real self he never knew existed along the way.

A shabby street urchin is used by heartless advertising wizards to clone their latest superstar ad girl - the one everybody wants to be like. Only being like her will also get you her problems, including a swift and sudden end.

Immensely wealthy and powerful Daniel Grey is so determined to remain young he's created clones of himself as a reservoir of body parts, but when he's spurned by a vain beauty he decides he must not just look young but actually become young.

In an asylum sick, tormented Jane cuts herself and suffers the constant abuse of her cell mate. Only when Jane is taken away to be experimented on does the cell mate and a sympathetic doctor realize Jane's true worth.

In an academy the instructors are robots who teach the cadets to be just like them. A crisis requires a cadet to act human - can he do it?

For a fee Dr. Brazil removes one's memories - but what if a patient wants them back?

Ardley Mendoza believes he has created a solution to his loneliness, but there's one problem. He forgot about his wife. With Alice Krige.

A wife losing touch with her husband, opts to temporarily become transsexual to spice up the marriage. When that fails, friends suggest she return to Options Inc. to try being a man for a while, to better empathize with her philandering spouse.

In a future where virtual reality has become the reality of choice, an entertainment megastar and a carefree lifeguard find there is no substitute for real emotion.

"Lawagons," computerized crime-fighting vehicles, have taken the danger and guesswork out of policing in Betaville - but when one malfunctions, it becomes an automated judge, jury and executioner.