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?
This show needs to be cancelled, but before you cancel it kill Anne heche character, so I can get some kind of satisfaction out of 9 episodes!
This show is a cult classic already. Love it.
I have to say I am all for cancelling this show. The only way to save it is to kill off Anne Heche’s character, but maybe the next thing is to put it out of misery. I am not watching any more. I think the network should invest their money in a better show.
Worst series I have seen in my entire life. Poor acting, plot twists every 5 minutes, stupid dialogues. Whole show looks like shot by a two teenagers who are doing it for laughs. Should be cancelled.
And Eureka or Terra Nova got canceled… uhh
If ever they did decide to cancel this somewhat bizarre but interesting show then the writers have given themselves a nightmare scenario trying to tie up all the loose ends!
I love the show . More intensity though.
Love this show!!!! It’s a keeper!!!!
I love it its got everything I really hope it returns
I really enjoy this show. I hope they renew it!
Good show. Deserves another season.
This turkey needs to be killed before thanksgiving
Really, really enjoy this show and there is much the writers can do with it. A really different “end he world/apocalypse” show without tons of gore, but with all of the things you would expect to see out of Revelations – bugs, storms, demons, etc. Please keep this one on the air. Love it.
Finally a really cool post-apocalyptic family friendly thriller without unnecessary horror fillers! Loving this show. Hope it gets renewed.
Thought I was watching Ghost Busters with the “demons” after shooting them. Tried to watch but had enough when the flying dragon carried off the horse. That was more believable than Anne Heche’s acting.
What a horrible show…. could hardly watch the 1st episode…. started the second and had to turn it off….. needs to be cancelled