Parenthood gets outsourced to a machine in "The Pod Generation," a 2023 comedy from director Sophie Barthes that imagines a near-future New York where a tech company called Pegazus sells couples an artificial womb.
What is The Pod Generation about?
Rachel and Alvy are a New York couple weighing the oldest decision in the world through a very new lens: a portable pod, engineered by the firm Pegazus, that promises to carry a pregnancy on their behalf while their careers keep moving. Emilia Clarke and Chiwetel Ejiofor play the pair as they navigate waitlists, wellness pods, and nature simulations sold back to city dwellers as a luxury upgrade. The film follows their shifting comfort with a process neither of them fully controls, as convenience collides with older instincts about what carrying a child is supposed to feel like.
About the cast
Emilia Clarke and Chiwetel Ejiofor anchor the film as the central couple, with Rosalie Craig, Vinette Robinson, and Kathryn Hunter rounding out a supporting cast that moves through the story's sleek, corporate-lit version of New York.
Context & significance
"The Pod Generation" is a co-production spanning Belgium, France, and the United Kingdom, and it sits squarely in the satirical strand of science fiction — closer to workplace comedy than to disaster spectacle. Barthes uses the pod itself as the film's visual anchor, a soft, glowing object that couples carry through offices and dinner parties, letting the production design carry much of the satire about how technology gets marketed as care.
Watching The Pod Generation on Ktime
"The Pod Generation" streams on K-Time with a free account login, and the platform offers both a Persian dub and Persian subtitles for the film, making it accessible to Farsi-speaking viewers across the diaspora who want the dialogue in their own language or the original English with subtitles alongside it.