Continuum gets to Continue, and Conclude, in a Fourth Season.
Continuum fans can rejoice about getting a planned conclusion of three (short) seasons of build up, with a six episode conclusion as season four, as tweeted about by creator/producer/writer/director Simon Barry:
There’s lucky and then there’s ‘you get to write the ending of your 4 season TV series’ lucky. #ContinuumRenewed #grateful
— Simon Barry (@SimonDavisBarry) December 9, 2014
Showcase announced the news on ET Canada in an interview with Continuum star Rachel Nichols. She thanked the “devoted fans who have loyally supported us since day one.”
From the start Showcase had geared this program to avid fans, with an online alternate reality game Continuum the Game full of puzzles and codes. (I just may have a Liber8 t-shirt in my collection of convention swag.) Their interaction for later seasons included going to real world locations to find clues, as well as ongoing polls to see if you were supporting Liber8 or the future status quo.
Continuum is filmed in Vancouver. And, bucking the trends of usual television production, is actually set in the Vancouver of both present and 65 years in the future.
Rachel Nichols, (previously Ashley Seaver on Criminal Minds) plays Kiera Cameron, a ‘protector’ aka law enforcement officer from 2077. But in that world, what she protects is the corporate interests – as democratic governments have been replaced with the rule of the Corporate Congress. The goal of terrorist group Liber8 is to travel to the past (our present) to prevent the Corporate Congress from being formed. While Kiera’s first goal is to get ‘home’ to her family who hadn’t been born yet, in the second and third season that clear and personal goal is muddied by her wavering commitment to that future – well that and split time lines and doubles of key players. And explosions. Lots of explosions.
Kiera works with the present time Vancouver police – including Victor Webster (Mutant X) as Detective Carlos Fonnegra and his superior officer Jack Dillon played by familiar face Brian Markinson. She is also in touch with Alec Sadler, now a teen but in her world the owner of the mega corporation for whom she worked.
Add ‘time police’, corporate influence in the current police department, ever changing alliances, plus a few rogue elements and –well it’s easy to see why the fans are excited to find out what happens next in this intelligent and thought provoking show.
It blends time travel (mostly uni-directional) with technological advancement. But mostly it explores the themes of balance between individual freedom and corporate security. Between the ends and the means. And don’t be surprised if your alliances switch as you watch.
This multi award winning series is scheduled to air in Canada on Showcase sometime in 2015. No US SyFy dates have been announced.
