Charlie Heaton and Malin Akerman
Soulmates In The Future, You Can Meet Your Perfect Match. (Results May Vary.)
f a simple, scientifically proven test could definitively determine your soulmate — that one person you’re cosmically connected to — would you take it? And if you took the test, how would the result change your life? Those questions are at the core of AMC’s six-part speculative sci-fi drama Soulmates, which tells stories of characters who’ve been profoundly affected by the breakthrough discovery of the human “soul particle” in 2023. Fifteen years in the future, the Soul Connex company offers customers the chance to find their soulmate. (Think of it as an internet dating service that is irrefutably accurate.) The science is perfect, but its real-world application isn’t. There’s no guarantee that their soulmate has also taken the test. There’s no guarantee that their soulmate is the person to whom they’re already married. There’s no guarantee they’ll like their soulmate’s family or friends. There’s no guarantee that their 6
soulmate is even still alive. “I always saw it as a world — if you were looking in the big, big, big picture — it’s the equivalent of destiny versus free will,” explains cocreator and executive producer Brett Goldstein. “If soulmates exist, then it’s this person you’re destined for. But if you’re destined, then you have no choice. But we live in a world where theoretically we have free will, so that’s the real question: If everything’s laid out for you, then what’s the point of your basic life?” In the premiere episode, Nikki (Succession’s Sarah Snook) is a mother of two who’s happy in her life with husband Franklin (Kingsley Ben-Adir). But she’s constantly wondering: Could she be even happier? David Costabile (Billions) plays a college professor who has his personal and professional life thrown into chaos when a woman (Sonya Cassidy, Lodge 49) hacks into his Soul Connex
Soulmates: © 2019 AMC Film Holdings LLC. Credit: Jorge Alvarino/AMC. Sarah Snook: © 2019 Getty Images. Credit: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images. Kingsley Ben-Adir: © 2019 Getty Images. Credit: Bennett Raglin/Getty Images.
By Ryan A. Berenz
