Brain Games: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Get ready to have your mind messed with! Brain Games uses interactive experiments, misdirection and tricks to demonstrate how our brains create the illusion of seamless reality through our memory, through our sensory perception, and how we focus our attention.

Series details

• Title: Brain Games
• Format: Reality
• Language: English
• Premiere date: 2011-10-09
• Final broadcast date listed: 2020-03-02
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: National Geographic
• Network country: United States
• Typical episode runtime: 48 minutes
• TVmaze community rating: 6.6/10
• TVMaze ID: 3209

Cast and credited roles

• Jason Silva — Host
• Bert Thomas Morris — Narrator
• Keegan-Michael Key — Host
• Lior Suchard — Mentalist
• Cara Santa Maria — Correspondent
• Neil Patrick Harris — Narrator

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2011-10-09; final listed air date 2011-10-09.
• Season 2: premiered 2013-04-22; final listed air date 2013-06-24.
• Season 3: premiered 2013-11-11; final listed air date 2014-03-17.
• Season 4: premiered 2014-07-14; final listed air date 2014-08-25.
• Season 5: premiered 2015-01-19; final listed air date 2015-03-16.
• Season 6: premiered 2015-06-28; final listed air date 2015-06-29.
• Season 7: premiered 2016-02-14; final listed air date 2016-03-20; episode order: 6.
• Season 8: premiered 2020-01-20; final listed air date 2020-03-02; episode order: 8.

Source and licence

Adapted from Brain Games on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.