VICE: Season 6
Season 6 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of VICE Season 5.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 6 Progress Shield
Raised in the System
Apr 6, 2018 · 30 min
Emmy-nominated actor Michael Kenneth Williams embarks on a personal journey to expose the root of the American mass incarceration crisis: the juvenile justice system.
Battle for Jerusalem/A Face In The Crowd
Apr 13, 2018 · 30 min
A look at the aftermath of President Trump's announcement to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem and a report from China on advances in facial recognition technology.
A Revolution in Ruins/New Kids on the Blockchain
Apr 20, 2018 · 30 min
An inside look at how the Libyan revolution is failing and a front-row seat to the geopolitical tug of war over Internet 3.0.
The Parkland Effect
Apr 27, 2018 · 30 min
Gianna Toboni sees firsthand how some teachers are taking up arms to be the “good guy with a gun that stops a bad guy with a gun” and explores the deep divisions in America that ma
Massacre in Myanmar/The Blue Helmets
May 4, 2018 · 30 min
Gianna Toboni travels to the Myanmar-Bangladesh border to investigate what the future holds for the world's most persecuted minority; correspondent Aris Roussinos joins U.N. peacek
Iran in Iraq/Dying on the Vine
May 11, 2018 · 30 min
Isobel Yeung travels to Iraq to see how Iran is exerting its growing influence over the war-torn country ahead of parliamentary elections. Gianna Toboni heads to the vineyards of N
Russian Democracy/Global Gag Rule
May 18, 2018 · 30 min
Ben Ferguson speaks with Russian voters and politicians to understand how democracy works in their country. Gianna Tobini examines how President Trump's Global Gag Rule impacts wom
Printing Tomorrow/Are We Alone?
Jun 1, 2018 · 30 min
Krishna Andavolu delves into the cutting-edge world of 3D-printing, meeting the scientists and entrepreneurs pushing the boundaries of manufacturing, material science, and even spa
No Choice But to Choose/Rebel Republic
Jun 8, 2018 · 30 min
Gianna Toboni goes to Michigan to see school choice in action and understand what the future of public education might look like. Ben Anderson reports on the crisis in the Central
The Cost of Living/Paradise Lost
Jun 15, 2018 · 30 min
Investigating if a more democratized medicinal future is possible in America; citizens of Puerto Rico struggle to rebuild in the wake of Hurricane Maria, one of the worst natural d
Separated By Birth
Jun 22, 2018 · 30 min
Krishna Andavolu embeds with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to explore what it’s like to be an American kid growing up in the shadow of deportation.
The Big Fix/Silicon Valley of India
Jun 29, 2018 · 30 min
The state of America’s infrastructure; and India’s tech talents, who once emigrated to the U.S. for job opportunities but are now putting their entrepreneurial spirit and engineeri
A Kurdish State/Out of Space
Jul 6, 2018 · 30 min
In Iraqi Kurdistan, Vice's Ben Anderson met those involved in the fight from the frontline to the Kurd's former guerrilla president to ask why the group recently voted for independ
Opioid Generation/Hindustan
Jul 13, 2018 · 30 min
Isobel Yeung examines a surge in West Virginia child welfare cases in light of the country's opioid epidemic. Krishna Andavolu travels across India to investigate the nation's incr
After the Fall
Jul 20, 2018 · 30 min
Isobel Yeung returns to Syria to tell the stories of those who were caught in the crossfire between the most feared terror group on Earth and the U.S.-backed coalition, whose colla
Waiting to Die/Women in War
Aug 3, 2018 · 30 min
Gianna Toboni reports on capital punishment in the U.S. and follows one death-row inmate on his path to the execution chamber; Isobel Yeung travels to Yemen to interview women who
Trump's Trade War
Aug 10, 2018 · 30 min
Michael Moynihan examines President Trump's claim that trade wars are easy to win, and what effect his policies could have on the global economy and the number of U.S. jobs.
A New Leaf/Quantum Supremacy
Aug 17, 2018 · 30 min
Charlet Duboc visits remote towns in Colombia where coca farming is a way of life to examine the struggle to make the nation cocaine-free. Taylor Wilson talks to scientists about t
Trans in Texas/Nicaragua Deja Vu
Aug 24, 2018 · 30 min
Gianna Toboni returns to Texas to see how the transgender community is fighting to win acceptance and protection. Vikram Gandhi travels to Nicaragua to meet the new revolutionaries
American Piety/Terror in Congo
Sep 7, 2018 · 30 min
Gianna Toboni travels to America's Bible Belt to see how evangelicals are navigating today's volatile political environment. Ben Anderson reports on the Allied Democratic Forces an
Engineering Earth
Sep 14, 2018 · 30 min
As greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise at unprecedented levels, scientists work to develop a backup plan to use technology to "geoengineer" the Earth's atmosphere and reduce
Brainhackers/Fall of Rio
Sep 21, 2018 · 30 min
Thomas Morton reports on advances in neurotechnology that could open up new avenues of human experience. Ben Anderson returns to Rio de Janeiro to check on social, economic and pol
Consent
Sep 28, 2018 · 30 min
One year after the explosive allegations against Harvey Weinstein, the #MeToo movement has impacted everything from Supreme Court nominees and workplace culture to sex and dating.
Voodoo Wrestling/Big Placebo
Oct 5, 2018 · 30 min
Dexter Thomas visits the Democratic Republic of the Congo to explore the sport of catch fétiche and the emergence of women as its new champions. Charlet Duboc reports on alternativ
Death Inc./Bannon's World
Nov 9, 2018 · 30 min
Gianna Toboni travels to Mexico to investigate the roots of a spiraling murder rate and meets the people who refuse to be silenced. Michael Moynihan visits Sweden, Italy and Belgiu
The Road to Asylum/Lab Rat Nation
Nov 16, 2018 · 30 min
Krishna Andavolu reports from Central America and the southern U.S. border on the effects of Trump administration policies on thousands of asylum seekers. Vikram Gandhi interviews
A Living Hell in Yemen/MDMA for PTSD
Nov 23, 2018 · 30 min
Ben Anderson returns to Yemen to witness the devastating effects of four years of war and indiscriminate bombing of civilians. Anderson investigates trials using MDMA-assisted ther
The War at Home/Putin's Crimea
Nov 30, 2018 · 30 min
Gianna Toboni reports on domestic violence in the U.S. and meets women working to fix the shortcomings of a legal system that often fails to protect them. Isobel Yeung investigates
Doom Boom/Unfair
Dec 7, 2018 · 30 min
Exploring the U.S.'s booming doomsday industry; the cultural bias towards lighter skin in India.
Back in the DPRK/California Burning
Dec 14, 2018 · 30 min
Revisiting the Korean peninsula in the wake of the new detente; the state of California's future in the wake of increasingly deadly fires.