Continuum
2012
Original language: English
- sci-fi & fantasy
- action & adventure
- drama
The story
The series centers on the conflict between a group of rebels from the year 2077 who time-travel to Vancouver, BC, in 2012, and a police officer who accidentally accompanies them. In spite of being many years early, the rebel group decides to continue its violent campaign to stop corporations of the future from replacing governments, while the police officer endeavours to stop them without revealing to anyone that she and the rebels are from the future.
What it’s like
Cool, desaturated Vancouver streets in overcast light, with rain-slick asphalt, glass towers and grey North Shore mountains framing the city, and a sleek, cold future shown through glowing blue interfaces, clean white corporate interiors and tactile holographic overlays. The cinematography leans on handheld movement during chases and gunfights, while quieter scenes sit in dim apartments and sterile office corridors lit by fluorescent tubes. The score is a pulsing electronic bed with tense synth stings, and the mood is restless, tightly plotted and urgent, a cool neo-noir with a sense of being watched. Pacing is brisk and serialised, with episodes built around escalating set-pieces, and the register is tense and morally grey. Intensity is moderate to high: regular gunfire, brutal fights, shootouts with some bloodshed, and a steady undercurrent of threat and betrayal, but little gore and no sexual content. It suits viewers who want a propulsive, mysterious genre show to lose themselves in on a weeknight, especially fans of sci-fi thrillers about power, surveillance and the cost of changing history.
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