Network: Syfy
Episodes: 13 (hour)
Seasons: One
TV show dates: September 27, 2016 — December 20, 2016
Series status: Cancelled
Performers include: James Tupper, Anne Heche, Levi Meadon, Julia Sarah Stone, and Taylor Hickson.
TV show description:
This science fiction drama series follows the Copeland family. They try to survive as the world as we know it starts to come apart.
Patriarch Joshua Copeland (James Tupper) is a university professor. His study of world cultures and beliefs come in handy when the end of days draws near and he has to help his family survive.
As a wife and mother, Karen (Anne Heche) is a fierce protector of her family. To keep her husband and three children safe, she draws on the combat skills and survival training she received as an Air Force pilot.
A star athlete and a fierce competitor, eldest son Matt (Levi Meadon) thinks that he’s up to the challenge of facing the end of the world — until the brutality of what he must do to survive begins to push his true character into the darkness. Dana and Brianna are his 17-year-old twin sisters.
Practical and quick-witted, Dana (Julia Sarah Stone) has a keen analytic mind. She has a thorough knowledge of science that, unfortunately, does not protect her from the terrors around her.
Meanwhile, Brianna (Taylor Hickson) is the outlier in the family. She’s an emotional, romantic, and rebellious young woman who’s anxious to live her own way — until the shocks and tragedies of the end times put her on a new path.
The family faces terrifying supernatural creatures and unprecedented disasters — including massive storms, earthquakes, meteor impacts, plague, and the rapid decline of civilization. Will they be able to survive — and figure out how to stop it?
Episode #13 — Whispers of Immortality
The clock is ticking. There are two hours left until space junk collides into Earth and kills everyone and everything on it. Moondog takes Karen, Josh and Dana back to his compound to try to figure out what’s there to do — if anything. Karen goes off alone to find Matt and Briana. Before she leaves, Moondog sees Karen’s bullet necklace, and recognizes it as a key. He tells her to grab some coffee at the Café Delphi — there’s something important there for her to see.
Meanwhile, Briana and Matt are searching for Matt’s g.f. Sarah, first on foot, and then in a Jeep. Matt has to take a leak, and so the two pull over. But, mysteriously, Matt never comes back. When Brianna goes looking for him, she finds him making out with Sarah. Not the time, Matt! Is that Matt, though? He’s acting a little weird, and Brianna keeps her eye on him. Meanwhile, Josh remembers all those old punch cards he collected from Professor Gloria Douglas’ office, and how they might contain some secret to the apocalypse. Moondog remembers his buddy the Junkman who has such a vintage computer to read the cards, and the three go in search of it.
Karen wanders into the Café Delphi, and finds a waitress there — or is she an oracle? The Oracle/waitress directs Karen to a pinball machine in the back, named the Omphalos: it’s supposed to help give Karen some direction. Using her bullet as a token, Karen gives the pinball a whirl. When she “loses” the game, the oracle tells her that, “you are the price for what you are looking for.” Interesting. Karen leaves the café a bit startled, a bit miffed that she only got one turn, and goes onward to find her kids.
Briana has had enough of this weird Matt in the backseat of the car, so she pulls over and threatens what she thinks is a Shapeshifter with its life. Turns out, her instincts were right, and the imposter gets violent. He’s ready to kill Briana when, out of nowhere, Matt surprises them all and shoots the Shapeshifter dead. The three of them, now regrouped, go out to find their family. Dana, Moondog and Josh are back at Moondog’s compound trying to decipher the note. Josh realizes that it’s a fragmented sentence — “The end of the world is not the end of the world” — and that if gravity is causing all this weird stuff to happen, then all they need to do is redirect the flow of gravity. If somehow they can cause a wormhole to appear, they’ll be able to use it to suck up all the stuff that’s headed for Earth. The Tesla tower! That can manipulate gravity!
Matt, Sarah and Briana find their mother crying and meditating in the middle of the road, and together they return to Moondog’s place. The Tesla tower is up to 11, the wormhole is forming, and it’s starting to suck up the space junk when one of the circuits blows. Karen, remembering what the oracle told her, climbs up the tower to fix the circuit…at her own peril. She gets the device working again, but the wormhole ends up sucking her up along with all the asteroids. The Copelands may have saved the world this day, but they lost a mother. Perhaps. (Courtesy Syfy.)
First aired: December 20, 2016.
What do you think? Do you like the Aftermath TV show? Do you think it should have been cancelled or renewed for a second season?
I really enjoyed the show Aftermath it was full of suspense, it was not a predictable series. I was very disappointed when Aftermath was cancelled. So here I am hoping that with the COVID-19, the show would reconsider as one to resume.