TV networks are starting to experiment with their shows, and "Aquarius" is proof of that.

NBC has actually pulled off a bold move with this series, making all 13 episodes immediately available for online streaming following the premiere of the show.

The show will continue to air in its normal timeslot, but NBC has asked audience measurement company Nielsen to perform a custom study. NBC wants to see how binge watching affects a show's ratings over the duration of the season's run.

"Aquarius" premiered last Thursday to 5.7 million viewers, according to Vulture.

The series, which features David Duchovny in the lead role, is about a detective who gets help from a counter-culture hippy detective on a case involving a missing person.

The historical piece tells the Charles Manson saga from a new point-of-view, particularly that of Det. Sam Hodiak.

It takes place in the summer of love, 1967, when counter-culture was in full swing and the sexual revolution was just taking off. Drugs and alternative lifestyles were the premier style for this group of youngsters who wanted something different than the status quo. They wanted to find out more about the universe, and that meant they were open and vulnerable to many things, which included the brainwashing of fanatical cults.

Screen Rant reports that the series, even though it is supposed to be about the Manson saga, plays many other angles of what transpired during that summer and did not just focus on Manson himself.

In fact, the Manson story did not officially break until 1969, following the brutal murders of Sharon Tate and her friends who were unlucky enough to be at her house the night the Manson family came lurking around.

Episode 1 started with a girl named Emma Karn (Emma Dumont) doing what so many other free-loving teenagers did at the time: She ran away from her family and joined a cult. This cult just so happened to be the family of Charles Manson and his followers.

Emma's mother, Grace (Michaela McManus), called old friend Sam Hodiak (Duchovny) to get help with finding her daughter. But she wanted it to be off the books.

Hodiak enlists the help of hippy undercover officer Brian Shafe (Grey Damon) whose "peace" style attire clashes with that of Hodiak's "FBI style" suit. But that will eventually make for great comic relief in the series as a recipe for ego clashes.

The duo eventually get caught up in other cases as the Emma case drifts further out of their reach, into the Manson underworld.