{"id":25454,"date":"2025-09-19T17:31:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T21:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=25454"},"modified":"2025-09-19T17:31:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T21:31:58","slug":"salvation-season-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/salvation-season-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Salvation (season 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;The way I see it, you&#8217;ve got two choices &#8212; tell me or kill me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Salvation<\/strong> season 1, aired in 2017<\/p>\n<p>Liam, a student at MIT, is charting asteroids heading for Earth that other people aren&#8217;t looking at. When he finds a big one that&#8217;s going to hit in 186 days, he reaches out to tech mogul Darius Tanz. Tanz takes him to Washington DC right to the Department of Defense &#8212; it turns out they already know about it. And they&#8217;re working on it, or a few of them are who have clearance &#8212; they plan on fixing the problem without telling anyone. Tanz isn&#8217;t satisfied with that plan.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about people who are trying to keep a secret, and other people who are trying to figure it out.<\/p>\n<p>The story is top notch, and builds to a startling season finale.<\/p>\n<p>Guest stars include Zuleikha Robinson, John Noble, and Dennis Boutsikaris.<\/p>\n<p>Stars Santiago Cabrera, Jennifer Finnigan, Charlie Rowe, and Shazi Raja.<\/p>\n<p>Created by Elizabeth Kruger and Craig Shapiro (<strong>Necessary Roughness<\/strong>), and Matt JL Wheeler (writer on <strong>Hawaii Five-0<\/strong>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;The way I see it, you&#8217;ve got two choices &#8212; tell me or kill me.&#8221; Salvation season 1, aired in 2017 Liam, a student at MIT, is charting asteroids heading for Earth that other people aren&#8217;t looking at. When he finds a big one that&#8217;s going to hit in 186 days, he reaches out [&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-25454","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\/25454","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=25454"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25482,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25454\/revisions\/25482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}