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“Half-chimp teen Charlie enters high school, befriends Lucy, but eco-terrorists seek to recruit him for extremist plots.”

The Darwin Incident

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5,211 rank · 39,542 viewers · 77 favorites

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13 episodes · 24 min per ep min · Winter 2026 · Bellnox Films · PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Synopsis

Half-chimp teen Charlie enters high school, befriends Lucy, but eco-terrorists seek to recruit him for extremist plots.

The Animal Liberation Alliance, an eco-terrorist organization, rescues a pregnant chimpanzee from an animal testing lab—only for it to give birth to a half-human, half-chimpanzee "humanzee" named Charlie! Fifteen years later, Charlie's human foster parents are finally ready to send him to a normal high school, where he makes his first friend: a human girl named Lucy. In the meantime, however, the ALA's stance has become ever more extreme, and now they're here to drag Charlie into their terrorist plot... (Source: Kodansha USA)