Counterpart - Starz - US Pace(**Spoilers**)

marklazarcovic

Just finished it,Simmons is amazing, really interesting show. Great that season 2 is underway

EoinMcLovin

Back on December 9th

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlOO2SwQ-os

Slydice

Back and Feels the same. Also the ending really got me curious Then the post credits! So.. I get the feeling

we'll be getting introduced to Management this season!

GottaGetGatt

Is this on the Irish Amazon Prime ?

EoinMcLovin

GottaGetGatt wrote: »

Is this on the Irish Amazon Prime ?

It’s available on the Starzplay subscription channel

Slydice

Oh! Need to know

what's at the black site!

LionelNashe

Slydice wrote: »

Back and Feels the same. Also the ending really got me curious Then the post credits! So.. I get the feeling

we'll be getting introduced to Management this season!

Slydice wrote: »

Solid finale,

definitely want a second season!

Good performances from all.

What

a mess! Everyones dead! Well, not everyone, but still! Maybe we'll see their others next season.

I'm guessing that in the next season, we'll be exploring the other world , seeing the mole hunt on ours and getting the a security character who will be doing the mole hunt.

and the mystery around who

is in the board of management. I assume they can easily claim security reasons for protecting identity

Slydice wrote: »

Oh! Need to know

what's at the black site!

Ha ha. Not every thing you want to say about the show is a spoiler. One of them just says "Can't wait for second season!"

Agent Coulson

Sarah Bolger must be the hardest working woman in Hollywood at the moment between this Mayans M.C. & Into the Badlands that's 3 current series and a couple of films as well.

EoinMcLovin

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Sarah Bolger must be the hardest working woman in Hollywood at the moment between this Mayans M.C. & Into the Badlands that's 3 current series and a couple of films as well.

She’s not in Into the badlands anymore, she was only in the first two seasons

Slydice

Jeez, the ballroom music at the end *twitch* Things starting to ratchet up!


Earlier on at the nightclub, a German version of Angel of the Morning was playing!

I remembered the tune from the leaked deadpool bit from years ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KCAYgNvrxo

Slydice

4: The Freakin Knife Scene! :eek: when

she escapes from the group trying to trade her for immunity

Agent Coulson

Well those last 10 minutes of this weeks episode have made everything a whole lot more interesting.

wally1990

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Well those last 10 minutes of this weeks episode have made everything a whole lot more interesting.

Is it S02 E05 out online or you referring to E04

Yggr of Asgard

wally1990 wrote: »

Is it S02 E05 out online or you referring to E04

05 is out and I would assume that is what Agent Coulson means.

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Well those last 10 minutes of this weeks episode have made everything a whole lot more interesting.

That was the best TV I have seen in a while.

Slydice

5: :eek: (

yer wan shooting herself

) and also, I'm so confused!

But then that Post Credits bit!

Agent Coulson

Origin story this week.

Slydice

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Origin story this week.

Feels solid enough. Not sure

she wants a peaceful meeting though

Cina

I really liked the origin story episode but I felt the way, initially, the worlds diverged was a bit of a stretch.

Surely if two identical people were doing identical things and saying identical things in the exact same world then they'd both be talking and imitating their actions at the exact same time, and it would be impossible for it to diverge that way? I would have thought it only possible to happen if they actually made human contact with each other and something beyond their control on one side caused it, not for one to speak and the other to wait.

Only a small thing, but still.

Heraldoffreeent

Cina wrote: »

I really liked the origin story episode but I felt the way, initially, the worlds diverged was a bit of a stretch.

Surely if two identical people were doing identical things and saying identical things in the exact same world then they'd both be talking and imitating their actions at the exact same time, and it would be impossible for it to diverge that way? I would have thought it only possible to happen if they actually made human contact with each other and something beyond their control on one side caused it, not for one to speak and the other to wait.

Only a small thing, but still.

Also they both exist in East Germany, in a society where the Stasi are banging in doors over a pamphlet. Yet Management don't have to interact with the state at all (even though its failing, surely they'd want to no whats going on in the facility?)yet get money and resources and military personnel. Surely the DDR would have been all over this? either trying to exploit it for the DDR, or private gain?

Slydice

7: Oh, I was full sure

Clare was gonna have killed Peter when Howard arrived.. but she hadn't. That relationship sure is confusing.

Good to see

Nadia will be back next week

Checking the audience numbers on wiki.. hrmm.. they dropped earlier but seem to be rising again:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterpart_(TV_series)

Yggr of Asgard

Episode 8 was excellent, quite a lot of story put into it with excellent parallel development.

They clearly are pushing the story forward quickly now, hopefully not because they think it's their last season.

Agent Coulson

Yes really well done on the parallel story telling this week.

Slydice

Agreed! So much set up. With two episodes left this season, I'm thinking maybe a half episode of setup and the rest to play things out. I can feel a cliffhanger in the air though!

Agent Coulson

Everything is set up nowfor the season/series finale next week.

Yggr of Asgard

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Everything is set up nowfor the season/series finale next week.

Let's hope it's only a season finale.

Yggr of Asgard

Okay, I am having mixed feelings about the future of this show after rewatching the latest episode.

Giving that some areas do not air episode 9 until tonight, I do it with spoilers.

While it was clear that Mira ultimately would succeed in her plan how to deal with management I wonder where this can go now that she clearly has management devices from both sides set up in the special interface room.

However, this episode was excellent, showing off the acting ability of Olivia Williams,

the way she came across at herself in the interface room was fun because I really thought there was glass until she lunged forward.

In any case, if this is the season finale coming up then I'm looking forward to the next season if it's the series finale I am hopeful they can ty up most threads.

It was/is an excellent TV show.

Slydice

Yeah, I hope it's not the end but if it is, then it's been a top show.

Looking forward to next week!

EoinMcLovin

Counterpart has been cancelled by Starz but is being shopped to other networks. Season 2 finale airs this weekend.

https://tvline.com/2019/02/11/counterpart-cancelled-starz-no-season-3/

Yggr of Asgard

It is unfortunate that this got canceled but the writing was on the wall for it, let's hope it does end not on a cliffhanger next weekend.

This was one of the best shows right now, unfortunately behind one (US) or even two (UK) paywalls and very seldom promoted by Starz.

Even on youtube, it was hard to find reviews, Gary from Nerdrotic one of the only regular reviewers.

With the viewing figures, I don't think that Amazon/Netflix will touch it.

Slydice

I'm torn. I've seen good shows cut abruptly before.

If they managed not to have a cliffhanger and it gets cancelled then that would be something.

Getting renewed obviously being the better outcome... well so long as the show doesn't go downhill.

Walter Bishop

Really hope this gets picked up, zero expectation it will.

Walter Bishop

Show maintained a very high standard throughout, satisfying ending, shame there will not be further resolution (probably).

Agent Coulson

Ye I'm happy enough with that being the closure.

EoinMcLovin

Anybody else think that the new deal that Howard from the other side made

was for the other Howard to take his place and go to the other side seeing as his wife was dead

Sierra 117

I'm satisfied with the ending. It's definitive enough that it works as a series finale while flexible enough to allow for a third season if needed.

Slydice

What a freakin excellent episode. Especially knowing that it's future is up in the air.

I thought they were winding down.
I thought killing Emily was too signposted
I thought Simmons acted the sadness Howard felt so well
I thought that was it at the end
I thought the only opening they left was the others who Clare said had crossed and been placed.

I thought wrong

Oh Mira. Excellent plan. Just caught me sideways.
In a way, it just felt the perfect revenge for her to take.
Another season would be great but maybe leaving it there is ok.

Tristram

Great ending!

Spook_ie

Someone please confirm

The last scenes are in the world with the still living Emily

Found it hard sometimes to keep track of which world we were in.

Slydice

Spook_ie wrote: »

Someone please confirm

The last scenes are in the world with the still living Emily

Found it hard sometimes to keep track of which world we were in.

No,

The last scenes are the virus being released into the Prime World

The last living Emily is in (and from I think) the other World where the Flu had already killed so much people.

johndoe99

OmegaGene wrote: »

Just started this and it’s very good after 6 episodes, lots of twists and turns and the acting from Simmons is fantastic, making me want to go back to OZ after this

that's what i did, i'm currently watching the final season of Oz.

is_that_so

OmegaGene wrote: »

Just started this and it’s very good after 6 episodes, lots of twists and turns and the acting from Simmons is fantastic, making me want to go back to OZ after this

Watched Season 1 and TBH that was me done and dusted. Far too slow-moving for my liking. He's terrific but it seemed to suffer from that modern malaise of multi-season plot stretching.

den87

I’ve only watched 2 episodes, would be so much handier if Netflix or Amazon added this.

ejmaztec

OmegaGene wrote: »

Just reading that starz in all their wisdom have cancelled the show, hopefully another network or Netflix picks it up for the third series

In this World, it was cancelled about a month ago :P

ejmaztec

OmegaGene wrote: »

Well who’s a smarty pants today
I didn’t read the thread from the start because of the spoilers and I didn’t read about it online either and it would ruin the show for me
Hope that’s okay with you :rolleyes:

It was my other who made the comment, he just can't help himself :eek:

ixoy

Very satisfied with the ending here, given they were cancelled. Clearly the writers had a two-season plot arc and left just enough for a third. Simmons was great - even right down to how the two Howard Silks had different body language. As a fan of his performances in "Oz" and "Whiplash", he's what got me interested in the first place and it paid off.

ejmaztec wrote: »

It was my other who made the comment, he just can't help himself :eek:

So what was it that led your other to make that comment? Deep down, would you not also have made the comment - could it be you are the same person?

Slydice

So.. given recent events..

I remembered this show today... and how it ended

:eek:

MisterAnarchy

Slydice wrote: »

So.. given recent events..

I remembered this show today... and how it ended

:eek:

Yes it is very topical.

I only just finished the last 6 episodes of the second season after a gap of almost a year .
Really enjoyed it,its tragic how undeappreciated the show was .

Slydice

JK Simmons is narrating a documentary on Coronavirus: