Season 1
- Alexa Davies as Meg Jefferies
- Will Merrick as Nicky Kettle
- Sargon Yelda as Usman
- Charlotte Ritchie as Alison
- David Mumeni as Russell
Dead Pixels (2019) [Season 1, Episode 1]
Bears
Shown 28 Mar 19
We meet the main characters, a group of mundane office workers who do computer work for their nine-to-five and then spend their nights on a computer Fantasy game. Well, they also play it in their lunch breaks at work. It is an international interactive online game, so the British team has an American member. Unfortunately, the Koreans are better players so the Brits end up losing their castle.
The blonde lead, Meg, is sexually frustrated so she invites a cow-orker named Russell to join the game. The good news is that he spends a lot of money on his character. The bad news is that he is an annoying newbie. Instead of putting up with him, and getting him to buy them some gifts in-game, they just decide to mug him and steal his stuff.
Dead Pixels (2019) [Season 1, Episode 2]
Tanadaal
Shown 28 Mar 19
Meg accuses a Fake Geek Girl of cultural appropriation. However, there is worse news for Meg. The game, Kingdom Scrolls, is about to be adapted as a movie. Vince Vaughn has been cast as the main character, Tanadaal. Naturally, Meg teams up with an alt-Right gang named The Flaming Shitheads in order to save the movie from Vaughn.
Meg seens to have given up on the idea of sex with Russell With nothing better to do, he invites a stranger he met online to come and stay in his home. Well, it is technically his mother's house. Anyway, it gets worse and worse.
Dead Pixels (2019) [Season 1, Episode 3]
Betrothal
Shown 28 Mar 19
Nicky convinces Meg to marry him. In the game, of course, so they can exploit a loophole. Unfortunately it affects their RL friendship.
Dead Pixels (2019) [Season 1, Episode 4]
Big Nose
Shown 28 Mar 19
A famous Kingdom Scrolls YouTuber named Big Nose has died. Meg decides to take up where he left off, and brands herself as the newest Kingdom Scrolls livestreamer. She only gets a handful of subscribers, so she tries various methods of increasing her viewership numbers.
Nicky is torn by grief at the loss of Big Nose. Luckily the third flatmate, Alison ( Charlotte Ritchie ), decides to throw a party.
Dead Pixels (2019) [Season 1, Episode 5]
Patricide
Shown 28 Mar 19
Nicky has a troubled relationship with his father. Now his dad joins Kingdom Scrolls, and challenges Nicky to a duel. When Nicky defeats his dad's character, the nerd develops some self-confidence.
Dead Pixels (2019) [Season 1, Episode 6]
Hive-Mother
Shown 28 Mar 19
The team go after the Hive-Mother, in the climax of the game's campaign. They decide to cosplay, while they are in lockdown in the apartment.
Meg must choose whether she wants Nicky or Russell.
