Michelle Yeoh’s Blade Runner 2099 hits Prime Video November 25. Here’s where it starts.

Blade Runner 2099 arrives on Prime Video on November 25, with all eight episodes available the same day. Michelle Yeoh leads as Olwen, a Replicant Blade Runner counting down her last days. Hunter Schafer plays Cora, a human fugitive who takes on one last identity: Blade Runner. The limited series is Silka Luisa’s (Shining Girls), with Ridley Scott among the executive producers and Jonathan van Tulleken directing the first two episodes.

The story sits fifty years after Blade Runner 2049. Los Angeles has been rebuilt, just not by humanity. After a Replicant uprising between the film and the series, engineered people run the city and humans live as second-class citizens. Cora partners with Olwen to hunt a runaway whose secret could crack that order. Dimitri Abold and Lewis Gribben round out the series regulars as Bebeto and Elias.

Yeoh’s Olwen is the clearest entry point for anyone arriving for her, not for franchise homework. Luisa has described the role as a Roy Batty story told from the Replicant’s side: Olwen knows the day she will die, and that certainty makes her volatile rather than quiet. Schafer’s Cora flips the usual Blade Runner disguise. She is human, has spent her life running from Blade Runners, and now has to pass as one. In the trailer, Olwen tells her the old world keeps fighting to return, then adds that it is their time now.

You do not need the films first. In early November, Luisa said Blade Runner 2049 is “not directly connected” to the show. The aim was a series people could follow without either movie. “This could be an introduction to the world of Blade Runner, and it wouldn’t be dependent on you having watched 2049, [or] you having watched the first Blade Runner,” she said. “In that sense, we had to divorce ourselves from the narrative.” Expect new characters, not Deckard, K, or Ana Stelline walking back into frame.

The look also leaves rain and snow behind. Luisa has called the series “sunshine noir”: hot, sticky coastal Los Angeles instead of perpetual night. The noir mystery still sits at the center. Fans who want the older films first can queue Blade Runner and 2049 on the same service. Everyone else can start on November 25 and meet Olwen on her own clock. The longer career map is in our People profile.