{"id":16083,"date":"2020-06-03T18:29:57","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T22:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=16083"},"modified":"2020-06-03T19:00:01","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T23:00:01","slug":"counterpart-season-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/counterpart-season-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Counterpart (season 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;And in the end, that, that capacity for love, the ability to love someone unselfishly is the only thing that will separate me from you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Counterpart<\/strong> season 1, aired in 2017-18<\/p>\n<p>Howard discovers that his world is not the only one. He works for a spy organization in Berlin but doesn&#8217;t have any context for what he does. It turns out the very building that he works in houses a secret &#8212; a connection to a parallel world. Thirty years ago the two worlds were the same, but things have diverged since then. Howard meets his counterpart from the other world &#8212; who looks exactly like him but acts completely different.<\/p>\n<p>Things were outrageously mysterious at the beginning but I trusted that enough would eventually become clear. Some things certainly did, but I was still left feeling a tiny bit confused.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s lots to like &#8212; including scenes of Howard talking to Howard.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about a long game of spy vs. spy. It&#8217;s about people who hate other people because of something they think they did.<\/p>\n<p>J.K. Simmons is mesmerizing as the two Howards.<\/p>\n<p>Stars Olivia Williams, Sara Serraiocco, and Nazanin Boniadi.<\/p>\n<p>Created by Justin Marks (the TV movie <strong>Rewind<\/strong>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;And in the end, that, that capacity for love, the ability to love someone unselfishly is the only thing that will separate me from you.&#8221; Counterpart season 1, aired in 2017-18 Howard discovers that his world is not the only one. He works for a spy organization in Berlin but doesn&#8217;t have any context [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[5,8,11],"class_list":["post-16083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-shows","tag-review","tag-science-fiction","tag-tv-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16083"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16132,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16083\/revisions\/16132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}