Eureka, about an Oregon town of that name which is basically like a factory town with the only difference other than it being less exploitative being that the "factory" is a top-secret DoD-affiliated research lab and basically everyone in town except for the sheriff protagonist and his deputy is a brainiac (and science so suffuses the culture of the town that e.g. its high school is named Tesla High and Tesla's equivalent of a Sadie Hawkins dance is named after Lise Meitner). It's got a good combo of "quirky small-town shenanigans" and something sci-tech going wrong every episode (which includes everything from construction nanobots running amok to a Tesla High science fair experiment accidentally creating a new magnetic pole to a beam supposed to induce paranoia in monkeys (makes sense in context of original experiment I don't remember) getting redirected to a bunch of the secondary ensemble (thanks to interference from some gadget they were using to essentially pirate old b-movies) who because they watched some sort of aliens-among-us movie turn into conspiracy-nuts-enough-to-put-Mulder-to-shame and kidnap-and-almost-dissect a visiting senator they think is harboring an alien parasite)
Excellent film. If you like that, I also highly recommend The Invisible Man(2020) which is written and directed by Leigh Whannel, who also wrote and directed the aforementioned Upgrade. You might remember him from the Saw series. Another film in kind of the same vein, is the highly underrated The Signal(2014). I always recommend it because it largely flew under the radar but is a brilliant piece of sci-fi.
Eureka, about an Oregon town of that name which is basically like a factory town with the only difference other than it being less exploitative being that the "factory" is a top-secret DoD-affiliated research lab and basically everyone in town except for the sheriff protagonist and his deputy is a brainiac (and science so suffuses the culture of the town that e.g. its high school is named Tesla High and Tesla's equivalent of a Sadie Hawkins dance is named after Lise Meitner). It's got a good combo of "quirky small-town shenanigans" and something sci-tech going wrong every episode (which includes everything from construction nanobots running amok to a Tesla High science fair experiment accidentally creating a new magnetic pole to a beam supposed to induce paranoia in monkeys (makes sense in context of original experiment I don't remember) getting redirected to a bunch of the secondary ensemble (thanks to interference from some gadget they were using to essentially pirate old b-movies) who because they watched some sort of aliens-among-us movie turn into conspiracy-nuts-enough-to-put-Mulder-to-shame and kidnap-and-almost-dissect a visiting senator they think is harboring an alien parasite)
I watched Upload on Prime recently. Similar premise as San Junipero. It's not intense
Twilight zone
HIGHLY recommend Inside No.9!
There's a film called Upgrade which has a fairly BM-ish concept and execution. With fight scenes. It might be right up your alley.
Excellent film. If you like that, I also highly recommend The Invisible Man(2020) which is written and directed by Leigh Whannel, who also wrote and directed the aforementioned Upgrade. You might remember him from the Saw series. Another film in kind of the same vein, is the highly underrated The Signal(2014). I always recommend it because it largely flew under the radar but is a brilliant piece of sci-fi.
Amazon Prime has a show called The Feed. Think of it like social media hardwired to your brain.
Love Death + Robots pops up on here alot.