Solos gathers a remarkable ensemble for seven standalone stories, each built around a single character facing a moment of profound isolation.
What is Solos about?
Rather than following one continuous plot, Solos moves episode by episode, handing each installment to a different character at a different point in time. The anthology format means every episode stands on its own, built as a self-contained character study rather than a chapter in a longer arc. What ties the stories together is not shared setting but shared feeling: people cut off from the people around them, working through something private, often with speculative or fantastical elements bending the world just slightly out of true. David Weil created the series with an approach that trusts a single performer to carry an entire episode, which lets the show shift tone and genre from one installment to the next while still returning to the same central question about what connects people even when they are entirely alone.
About the cast
The anthology's episodes are carried by a cast that includes Morgan Freeman, Uzo Aduba, Nicole Beharie, Anne Hathaway, Anthony Mackie, Helen Mirren, Constance Wu and Jack Quaid, with each actor anchoring their own installment largely on their own. That structure asks for a different kind of performance than a typical ensemble drama, since there is rarely another character in the room to play off for long stretches.
Context & significance
Solos arrived in 2021 as American television was leaning further into anthology formats, and its premise pushed that idea to an extreme by giving nearly every episode to one actor and one perspective. Each installment runs around twenty-four minutes, short enough to function as a self-contained piece rather than a fragment of something larger. The science-fiction and fantasy touches throughout keep the show from settling into a single register, so a grounded drama can sit next to a story that bends time or memory.
Watching Solos on Ktime
Solos can be streamed on K-Time once you log into a free account; the page describing it is free to read even before that. The platform is built around a Farsi interface for Persian-speaking viewers, and episodes here run short enough to watch one story at a time between other things.