The Institute Episode 6: Release date news, streaming details, cast, and more

The Institute is a psychological thriller that slowly creeps under your skin.

Adapted from Stephen King’s bestselling novel of the same name, it explores the terrifying journey of gifted children abducted and placed inside a mysterious facility where sinister experiments are masked behind layers of science and secrecy.

The show blends the supernatural with humans' lust for control. Viewers are left to question where morality ends and manipulation begins.

The show is set in a world where telekinesis and telepathy are tools of a covert system. It is a tale of rebellion, of trauma, and hope. With disturbing visuals, mind control elements, and intense escapes, the show captures the same uneasy feeling found in King’s most iconic works.

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The Institute Episode 6: Release date and streaming details

Episode 6 of The Institute is slated to release on August 10, 2025, at 9 PM ET/ 6 PM PT. The show streams exclusively on MGM+, so viewers will need an active MGM+ subscription to follow the journey of Luke, Tim, and the other children trapped in the secret facility.

This is the first season, and the release format is hybrid. It gave fans a double dose of the twisted world King imagined by releasing the first two episodes together on July 13.

Since then, new episodes have been dropping weekly on MGM+ as it is slowly revealing the chilling events and raising the tension with each episode.

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The Institute: The main cast

Here is the main cast of The Institute:

• Ben Barnes as Tim Jamieson
• Joe Freeman as Luke Ellis
• Mary-Louise Parker as Ms. Sigsby
• Julian Richings as Stackhouse
• Robert Joy as Dr. Daniel Hendricks
• Simone Miller as Kalisha
• Fionn Laird as Nick
• Hannah Galway as Wendy Gullickson
• Martin Roach as Chief Ashworth
• Birva Pandya as Iris
• Jane Luk as Maureen

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The Institute: What to expect in episode 6

Episode 6 is set to bring long-awaited confrontations and tension with Luke finally making his way out of the facility and Tim closing in from the outside.

The previous episode ended with a convergence in motion. Luke, Maureen, and Tim are all heading toward the Red Steps. But their meeting might turn into an ambush, especially with Kate, the supposed reporter Maureen trusts, likely being the wrong person to break the details to.

We also saw the dark reality of the back-half, where telepathic children like Iris, Kalisha, and Nikki are psychologically tortured and manipulated into remote-controlling victims to carry out assassinations.

The use of dream-sharing and sound stimulation to increase their powers was already horrifying. But Episode 6 might dig deeper into how far the facility is willing to go. Iris’s deteriorating condition and Sigsby’s blatant lies about it being her last mission show how expendable these children really are.

Episode 6 is also expected to explore Luke’s emotional turmoil as he leaves others behind, especially Iris, to whom he promises he’ll return. We are yet to see if he reaches the outside world or ends up walking into another trap.

There’s also potential for a major twist. If Kate truly works for the Institute, then Tim and Maureen’s lives could be in grave danger. But Tim’s combat background gives some hope.

There will be emotional reckonings and a possible shift in power dynamics within the facility, as well as the beginning of the long fight back. The Institute Episode 6 might be the one where the facility finally faces resistance.

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