Sandra is a fiction podcast by Gimlet Media starring Alia Shawkat. The show follows Helen as she starts a new job at a tech giant that developed a virtual assistant called Sandra.
The podcast is produced by Gimlet Media.[1] Sandra is the second fiction podcast by Gimlet.[2] Alia Shawkat stars as the protagonist of the show named Helen.[3] Sandra is the fictional equivalent of Amazon Alexa.[4] All seven episodes were released on April 18, 2018.[5] The show was written by Kevin Moffett and Matthew Derby.[6] Sandra is powered by humans instead of AI.[7] Helen starts working at a tech giant as a Sandra operator.[8] The tech giant that developed Sandra is called Orbital Teledynamics.[9] The company is based in her hometown of Guymon, Oklahoma.[10] The rights to adapt the podcast into a television series were acquired by Wiip—the independent studio owned by Paul Lee.[11][12] The show was adapted for Mexico and Brazil.[13] The show has been compared to Black Mirror.[14]