Below

Below is a British-American post-apocalyptic dystopian thriller drama series set in the Boiled Alive universe, and is the first installment in the franchise. The series follows the inhabitants of Halcyon, a subterranean metropolis inhabited by the descendants of those who fled into the city during the Great Collapse, an intense nuclear exchange which devastated the planet. The series questions class warfare, social injustice and the politics of survival as the poorer residents at the top of the city, where the radiation is highest, aim to fight their way to the bottom, where the upper classes reside and where the radiation cannot penetrate.

Plot
Below is set in 2108, fifty-eight years after a devastating nuclear war known as the Great Collapse, and follows the residents of a massive underground city known as Halcyon, home to hundreds of thousands of people all of whom are descended from people who fled into the city during the war. Since the catastrophe, the city's population has become rigidly separated by class, with the poorer residents forced to live at the top of the city, where the radiation is highest, and the upper classes residing at the bottom, where the radiation is lowest. The classes are caught up in a revolutionary struggle against the strictly imposed social hierarchy and unbalanced allocation of limited resources. The series explores issues of class warfare, social injustice, and the politics of survival.

Season 1
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Main

 * Minerva Cooper: The great-granddaughter of Hayden Cooper and the elder twin sister of Thomas Cooper, Minerva dreams of fulfilling her ancestor's goal of installing democratic rule over Halcyon and sharing its resources between all classes, believing that the city can become a paradise.
 * Thomas Cooper: The great-grandson of Hayden Cooper and the younger twin brother of Minerva Cooper, Thomas longs to see the surface and leave Halcyon, and joins his sister as part of the Uppers Liberation Front in order to find the mythical Cooper's Exit.

Recurring

 * Hayden Cooper: The great-grandfather of Minerva and Thomas, Hayden Cooper was the leader of the first, largest and only successful revolution against the Lowers after he led an army of Uppers into the depths of Halcyon in order to take their resources for themselves. Although Cooper survived his own revolution, he and a small group of his surviving followers disappeared into the tunnels beneath Halcyon in search of a supposed exit to the outside world, which has become known as Cooper's Exit. He will appear in flashbacks that will explore his story.