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Sink in: Final season of ‘La Brea’ premieres BY SARAH PASSINGHAM Science fiction stories help us escape the reality in which we live to fantastical worlds that are sometimes literally turning themselves inside out. The final season of “La Brea,” the sci-fi drama that explores a world full of time-bending portals and sinkholes, premieres the first of its last six episodes on NBC Tuesday, Jan. 9. Natalie Zea (“Justified”), Eoin Macken (“I Used to Be Famous,” 2022), Zyra Gorecki (“Chicago Fire”) and Jack Martin (“All Rise”) all return as the Harris family, who have been searching for each other, along with some answers about the La Brea tar pit sinkhole that opened up and separated them, for two seasons. “La Brea” will wrap up its story this season with six action-packed episodes tying together the threads between its several timelines. It all began in present-day Los Angeles, when a massive sinkhole opened up in the middle of the city, sending everything and everyone deep into the past. Sinkhole survivors land in what they learn is the place from which they fell, but all the way back in the year 10,000 BCE. Two members of the Harris family were sent through the sinkhole time portal: mother and office manager Eve (Zea) and her teenage son, Josh (Martin). Now separated physically from
her estranged husband, former Air Force pilot Gavin (Macken), and her daughter, Izzy (Gorecki), Eve struggles to understand the new world she was dropped into and tries to find her way back to solid ground in present-day L.A. Chiké Okonkwo (“Being Mary Jane”) is Dr. Ty Coleman, a therapist who befriends Eve and Sam in 10,000 BCE. Ty is living with a terminal brain tumor when he is sent through the sinkhole, an unimaginable event that changes his perspective on life. His adventure into the past includes falling for Paara (Tonantzin Carmelo, “The English”), a Tongva woman who connects with him over complicated past relationships. Though their relationship had its struggles — they come from two completely different centuries, after all — the pair married in a rare moment of celebration among the survivors. Eve and Ty emerge as leaders among the new sinkhole society early on, joined by former Marine and surgeon Sam Velez (Jon Seda “Chicago P.D.”), who entered 10,000 BCE with his daughter, college student Riley (Veronica St. Clair, “Unbelievable”). Rohan Mirchandaney (“The Newsreader”) is Australian stoner Scott Israni, whose knowledge as an anthropology graduate student becomes a commodity after he winds up falling through the sinkhole. Scott becomes close with Josh
and Riley, but often gets himself into dangerous situations with others — like when he was almost killed by The Exiles before Gavin stepped in last season. A well-armed group of warriors who, like the “Sky People” who fell from L.A. into the distant past, The Exiles seem to have arrived from another time. Led by Taamet (Martin Sensmeier, “Alaska Daily”), who happens to be Paara ‘s ex-husband, The Exiles use steel weaponry, something that is not historically consistent with 10,000 BCE. The Exiles are foes, not friends, to anyone new they encounter, taking Eve hostage in the second season, along with Veronica (Lily Santiago, “Vineyards,” 2023), a strong-willed, religious young woman with a shocking past, and former Air Force pilot and longtime friend of the Harris family, Levi Delgado (Nicholas Gonzalez, “The Good Doctor”). As if one sinkhole and time portal wasn’t enough to try to get to the bottom of, there are multiple timelines and interconnected stories within them in “La Brea.” Seat yourself firmly in 2024 before tuning in to the final season premiere of “La Brea,” airing Tuesday, Jan. 9, on NBC.
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