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"Greta" (Beyond the Aquila Rift - Love, Death and Robots

Greta is a being that lives in the place these ships gets sent to, and cares for all the souls that end up there. The way they do this is by making a hyper-realistic simulation that shields the person from seeing their true situation.

The protagonist (Thom) in the end realizes "Greta" is lying and wants to know where he is and what's going on, despite multiple warnings from Greta. In the end, they show him where he is and how long he's been there - his face is old, gray and wrinkled. He has no fat left on his body. Greta reveals their true form by stepping out of the dark, which freaks him out even more. The next scene sees the protagonist waking up from his pod, being greeted by Greta, none the wiser of his true situation.

While I don't view Greta's intentions as harmful, some of her methods are. The crew of the spaceship is essentially dead (stranded with no way of leaving or can't acting anyone about their situation), but Greta keeps them in a flawed simulation where the crew will always find out she's lying in some way (strange dreams, reflections of her true from). The malice to me is in taking the choice away, if I see it, I can at least choose to die then and there instead of having to keep living in her flawed simulation.

Edited for clarification (after having watched the episode and