Did You Hear a New Series on MKUltra Is Coming to HBO?

Good morning and welcome to another edition of The Drop In! We’re kicking things off today with a story about one of the most sordid eras in psychedelic history: MKUltra.

We won’t give too much away, but soon there will be a series about the infamous mind control experiments of the CIA on a major streaming platform. Find all the details below!

If you keep scrolling, you can find stories about trippy indie-rock queens, psilohuasca, the relationship between acid and outer space, and how to help our Jamaican medicine community, who were recently ravaged by Hurricane Melissa.

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HBO Is Slated to Release a New Series About MKUltra

The Sopranos creator David Chase is back at HBO making MKUltra, a limited series about the CIA’s secret LSD experiments.

After nearly two decades away from television, David Chase — the creator behind The Sopranos — is returning to HBO with MKUltra, a limited series based on the CIA’s infamous Cold War-era mind control program. Adapted from John Lisle’s book Project Mind Control: Sidney Gottlieb, the CIA, and the Tragedy of MKUltra, the show will dive into the harrowing, covert government experiments that weaponized LSD, hypnosis, and psychological torture in the name of national security.

The series centers on Sidney Gottlieb, the chemist known as the CIA’s “black sorcerer,” who oversaw decades of clandestine research on human consciousness. Under the guise of protecting the country from Soviet and Chinese “brainwashing,” Gottlieb ran a program that tested psychedelics on both willing and unwilling participants. Volunteers included agency insiders, military personnel, and college students. Others — including mental patients, prisoners, sex workers, and people battling addiction — were coerced, misled, or outright abused. Some never recovered.

For Chase, the project marks a sharp but fitting turn: A return to HBO, but this time through the lens of paranoia and control, instead of through family and crime. It also comes at a moment when Chase has been candid about his frustration with the current state of television. “We seem to be confused, and audiences can’t keep their minds on things, so we can’t make anything that makes too much sense, takes our attention, and requires an audience to focus,” David Chase told Deadline. “And as for streaming executives? It is getting worse. We’re going back to where we were.”

Chase, who won five Emmys for The Sopranos, helped usher in the golden age of prestige TV. But, in recent years, he’s lamented how that era has faded. “Who is this all really for?” he said. “I guess the stockholders?”

Now, at 78, Chase seems poised to confront another American myth—this time, one dripping with acid, paranoia, and the psychedelic illusion of control. If The Sopranos dissected moral decay in suburbia, MKUltra looks ready to unravel the hallucinatory rot at the highest levels of power.

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Have you ever had a psychedelic journey so intense it felt like everyone around you was in on it? From telepathic cats to friends echoing your trip’s themes, writer Suzannah Weiss explores the strange, shimmering overlap between inner visions and outer reality.

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