ChatGPT writes me a show, is it good?
Hello everybody, you read the title, you know what it's all about, ChatGPT writes me a show! But is it good? You can decide if you want to. Anyway, I'm not going to hold you back with this introduction, so without further ado, ChatGPT!
ChatGPT: Absolutely! Here's a full concept for a one-season (8-episode) serialized TV series, complete with a full series description and episode-by-episode breakdown:
Title: The Left Eye
Genre: Mystery / Supernatural Thriller
Format: 1-hour episodes, 8 episodes
Tone: Sharp Objects meets The OA
Series Premise:
After the sudden death of her estranged mother, 30-year-old photojournalist Lena Voss returns to her eerie hometown of Ashgrove, Oregon. While settling the estate, Lena finds a strange old camera in the attic — one that only captures people who are going to die in the next 24 hours. At first believing it’s a trick of the light or her own unraveling mind, Lena begins to test the camera... and discovers it's always right.
As she investigates the origins of the device — and the deaths it predicts — she uncovers a hidden part of Ashgrove’s history involving a cult known as The Left Eye, secret experiments in perception, and her mother’s own cryptic past.
Episode Guide:
Episode 1 – “Negative”
Lena Voss returns to Ashgrove for her mother’s funeral. While going through her belongings, she finds an old Leica camera with a cracked lens and a roll of undeveloped film. She takes it to a local shop, and the developed photos show a man she doesn’t recognize — who turns up dead the next day. Lena is shaken but skeptical.
Episode 2 – “Shutter”
Lena tests the camera on strangers in public and discovers a horrifying pattern: every photo she takes shows someone who dies the next day. She tries to warn a woman she captures, but the woman still dies — this time in a freak accident. Flashbacks reveal Lena’s mother once investigated a cult in Ashgrove during the 80s.
Episode 3 – “The Aperture”
Lena discovers a hidden room behind her mother’s attic filled with occult texts and notes about “seeing beyond time.” She connects with local historian Elias Marr, who tells her about a group called The Left Eye, a radical sect that believed certain devices could "see fate." A figure starts stalking Lena at night.
Episode 4 – “Exposure”
Lena photographs Elias to test the camera — and sees his image appear. She tries desperately to stop his death but fails again. This loss sends her into a spiral, and she begins having vivid dreams of the deaths before they happen. Her grip on reality falters. Someone breaks into her house and steals the cult journals.
Episode 5 – “Depth of Field”
Lena finds a survivor of The Left Eye, a woman named Sister Kira, in a psychiatric facility. Kira reveals that the camera isn’t predicting death — it’s marking people. Anyone photographed becomes part of a sacrificial pattern to “feed the eye.” Lena realizes she may be unknowingly causing these deaths.
Episode 6 – “Red Light”
Lena smashes the camera, only to find it intact the next morning. She realizes it can’t be destroyed — it “resets” itself. Clues from her mother’s notes suggest Lena was part of a ritual as a child. The camera might be bonded to her. When her best friend Maya shows up in a photo, Lena refuses to let her die.
Episode 7 – “Fixed Lens”
Maya vanishes, and Lena traces her to an abandoned church used by The Left Eye. There, she confronts the man who’s been following her — Simon Rake, a former cult member who believes Lena is the “final aperture,” the last link in a prophecy. Lena discovers that her mother was trying to seal the power, not destroy it.
Episode 8 – “Darkroom”
Lena returns to the church and reenacts the original sealing ritual, using the camera to turn its power inward. The final moments blur reality and hallucination — Lena speaks to her mother’s spirit and offers herself in exchange for ending the chain. The series ends ambiguously: Lena is missing, the camera is gone... but a new roll of film develops on its own in the shop.
Do you think that the show is good?
