The Institute: Book vs. Series
Benjamin Cavell's 2025 series The Institute adapts Stephen King's book. Joe Freeman plays an abducted teenager held with other children who have unusual abilities, while Ben Barnes plays a former officer living nearby.
About the book and the TV show
- Author
- Stephen King
- Year
- 2019
- Pages
- 576Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 18 hr 59 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Santino Fontana
Luke Ellis wakes in a room designed to resemble his bedroom, except that its window is missing and his parents are nowhere to be found. The other children held at the Institute have telepathic or telekinetic abilities, and the staff subjects them to tests enforced through rewards and punishment. As friends disappear into another part of the facility, Luke searches for a way to reach help outside.
- Creator
- Benjamin Cavell
- Year
- 2025
- Episode
- 1 hrWatch on Amazon
- Seasons
- 1
- Episodes
- 8
- Network
- MGM+
- Cast
- Ben Barnes, Mary-Louise Parker, Joe Freeman, Simone Miller
- Genre
- horror, science fiction, thriller
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
At a secluded facility, Mrs. Sigsby oversees children whose unusual abilities make them valuable to a program they are not allowed to understand. Newly abducted Luke Ellis begins finding allies among the other captives while trying to work out what the staff wants from them. Nearby, former police officer Tim Jamieson takes a quiet job, unaware of the operation unfolding beyond the town.
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