{"id":99997,"date":"2017-11-03T17:19:16","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T17:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=99997"},"modified":"2017-11-09T11:28:11","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T11:28:11","slug":"counterpart-trailer-makes-jk-simmons-meet-himself-from-another-dimension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/counterpart-trailer-makes-jk-simmons-meet-himself-from-another-dimension\/","title":{"rendered":"Counterpart trailer makes JK Simmons meet himself from another dimension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first trailer has arrived for Starz&#8217; upcoming series <strong><em>Counterpart<\/em><\/strong>, starring JK Simmons, and not only does it give us two performances from the amazing actor, it also looks like it could offer the alternate-dimensional mind-bending we&#8217;ve been missing since <strong><em>Fringe<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c3Bu2DOM66g\" width=\"616\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Looks pretty good, right? Starz is so confident that they&#8217;ve\u00a0made two seasons at once.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An espionage, sci-fi thriller with a metaphysical twist, <strong><em>Counterpart<\/em><\/strong> tells the story of Howard Silk (Simmons), a lowly cog in a bureaucratic UN agency who is turning the last corner of a life filled with regret, when he discovers the agency he works for is guarding a secret: a crossing to a parallel dimension.\u00a0Through Howard and his \u201ccounterpart\u201d on the other side, the show will navigate themes of identity, idealism, what ifs, and lost love.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The show is created by Justin Marks (<strong><em>The Jungle Book<\/em><\/strong>), and the excellent cast also includes Olivia Williams, Ulrich Thomsen,\u00a0Harry Lloyd,\u00a0Nicholas Pinnock,\u00a0Nazanin Boniadi and Sara Serraiocco.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Counterpart begins on 21 January 2018 in the US. No UK air date has been announced. Keep up with the latest genre news with the new issue of SciFiNow.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trailer for JK Simmons&#8217; new show Counterpart looks like Fringe with more ass-kicking<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":99998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[3,207],"tags":[5908],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Screen-Shot-2017-11-03-at-17.16.02.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99997"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}