Counterpart debuted on December 10, 2017 and it ended on February 17, 2019 after two seasons and 20 episodes. Counterpart starred J.K. Simmons as Howard Silk, Olivia Williams as Emily Burton Silk, Harry Lloyd as Peter Quayle, and Nazanin Boniadi as Clare Quayle. Simmons plays a UN functionary who stumbles across the fact that he is in contact with a parallel world that is diverging from his own world. The series originally aired on Starz in the U.S. It is available on DVD and BluRay and can be streamed on Amazon Prime, Apple TV, Vudu, Google Play, and RedBox. It is rare for there to be a good science fiction TV series—I am not including fantasy or super-heroes, there is a lot of genre TV but not a lot of good SF. That may be changing, but the volume is low. We are also in an era of reboots, perhaps it is nostalgia or lack of imagination? In 2017 a new series was launched that only lasted for two seasons before the network STARZ decided not to renew. It had depth, believable world building, and good acting. This was Counterpart.
Howard meets his counterpart Howard Prime
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