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Counterpart

2017 56 min Drama · Thriller · Science Fiction

A UN agency conceals a doorway to a parallel world, and a lowly clerk's routine is shattered when his exact double arrives and insists on dealing only with him.

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About the series

What if there were another you?

What it’s about

Howard Silk spends his days at a UN agency passing encrypted messages to a colleague, unaware of what the messages mean or why he does it. He is stuck, overlooked and exploited by bosses who know he will not push back. One day his precise double walks in and announces he will cooperate only with Howard. The agency, it turns out, guards a crossing to a parallel dimension.

What hooks you

J.K. Simmons appears as Howard Silk, while Olivia Williams plays Emily Burton Silk and Harry Lloyd plays Peter Quayle. The series earned a Saturn Award nomination in 2019. Its tagline, "What if there were another you?", points to the central idea.

Who it’s for

It suits viewers who like tension that builds slowly around a bureaucratic setting, and those drawn to stories of identity and the choices that shape a life.

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Technical details
Country
United States
Year
2017
Genres
Drama, Thriller, Science Fiction
Episode length
56min
Age rating
18+
MPAA
TV-MA
Status
Off air
World premiere
Dec 10, 2017

Ratings

MOVIE․ONE · 691 votes
7.6 /10
IMDb
8.034,000
Kinopoisk
7.417,672
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Creative team

All 12
Director Stephen Williams
Starring
  1. 01 J.K. Simmons Howard Silk
  2. 02 Olivia Williams Emily Burton Silk
  3. 03 Harry Lloyd Peter Quayle
  4. 04 Nazanin Boniadi Clare Quayle
  5. 05 John Funk Howard
  6. 06 Sara Serraiocco Baldwin
  7. 07 Nicholas Pinnock Ian Shaw
  8. 08 Betty Gabriel Naya Temple
  9. 09 Ulrich Thomsen Aldrich

Trivia

  1. Michael Nyqvist was initially cast as Chekhov (this character was later renamed Aldrich). The actor, however, turned out to be busy with other projects, and the role went to Ulrich Thomsen. As for Nyqvist, he died in June 2017 at the age of 56, just as work on the series was underway.

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