In 1923, French psychiatrist Joseph Capgras described the case of a French woman who was convinced that her husband had been replaced with a doppelgänger. The delusion soon became known as Capgras Delusion, and evidence of these paranoid worries can be found throughout stories from Apple TV’s The Changeling all the way back to German fairy tales of fairies switching babies in their beds.
Now, a Netflix anime series is turning this trope on its head with an eerie thriller about a rural student who realizes his best friend isn’t what he seems and it’s up to him to keep the secret. There are only a few episodes out now, but it could — and should — be the sleeper hit of the summer.
