The Institute (2025) is an American horror series based on the eponymous novel by Stephen King.

Ms Sigsby (Mary-Louise Parker) runs a secretive place called The Institute where children are experimented on before disappearing, ostensibly going back home.

Luke Ellis (Joe Freeman) is a 14-year-old who is abducted from his home and wakes up in The Institute. Told he has special abilities (& he is clever), Luke finds out that his parents were murdered on the night he was kidnapped and about why children are being held there and where they disappear to.

While Luke is working out what’s going on inside The Institute, Tim (Ben Barnes) is a cop who has wandered into town & taken on a job he is over-qualified for, that of Night Knocker. The Night Knocker prowls the local streets at night making sure all is well.

The Institute has been running for about 70 years & there are stories over the years of children mysteriously disappearing, stories that Tim finds out about.