one of the decade's best, TRON: Uprising is currently streaming in Australia on Disney Plus, and in the US on Disney Plus with a 8/10 audience score that speaks for itself. 18 episodes — the right length to tell the story it is telling. Television that earns its era label is rarer than the number of shows attempting it suggests — most of what gets called prestige TV is really just expensive TV. TRON: Uprising is one of the genuine examples: the craft is there in the writing, the performances, and the way it handles its subject matter. Elijah Wood's involvement signals the kind of production that attracts serious talent and uses it properly. Available now on streaming — no excuses left for not watching it.

Originally commissioned by Disney XD, TRON: Uprising quickly became exactly the kind of show that viewers rearrange their evenings for. Some time between 'Tron' and 'Tron: Legacy', a young program named Beck becomes the skillful leader of a revolution inside the computer world of The Grid. It aired in 2012–2013. The world-building is meticulous enough to sustain multiple rewatches, with details in early episodes that only make sense later in the run. The consistency across the run is what elevates it — not every episode is the best, but none of them are a reason to stop watching.

Satisfying on multiple levels — something to enjoy on screen and something to think about after. The run is exactly the right length for the ideas it is exploring. The best science fiction uses its speculative framework to examine things that matter in the real world, and TRON: Uprising does this with more subtlety than the genre usually allows itself. The special effects serve the story rather than substituting for it, which is the mark of a production that understands what genre television is actually for. Elijah Wood anchors it with a performance that makes the more abstract episodes feel personal.