A group of people who always reside in close proximity, always fulfill the same archetypes, and always seem to fall into the same relationships, live their lives over and over in worlds in which they continually cause each other’s destruction – all while seeking the truth about why they are continually reliving relatively the same lives.  But when the truth becomes apparent to them, they realize that there is no escape from their reality (that they are a crew of astronauts orbiting a dead star on a damaged spaceship after an accident during their space mission has left them with unlimited life support, but no ability to contact anyone for help) except the virtual-reality construct program that keeps them all from developing psychoses due to cabin fever.

SYNOPSIS:

This would be an anthology series (very much like American Horror Story seasons 1-4) with 4-5 seasons, with each season getting more and more surreal as the world the characters exist in deteriorating with each new venue/context. It is based on A MAZE OF DEATH by Philip K Dick, but needs a title that will not give away the source material. The final season would be a (relatively) faithful adaptation of the book, which would recontextualize the previous seasons. Of course, it would also need licensing from the Estate of Philip K. Dick