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 just started binge watching. Never heard of this show. I hate to hear that it’s already canceled. Maybe of they had advertised this show a bit more, more would have heard of it and watched. Sucks.
Please bring it back! Geez, finally get a SyFy worthy show again and they cancel it right off the bat. Sucks. SyFy used to be my favorite channel, and I thought they were finally getting back around to airing new decent “thinking” shows in the tradition of SyFy (think Stargate Atlantis, etc.) but I guess I was wrong. I want to know what happens! At least give us a final episode to tie up the premise, I mean heck, even The Leftovers got a second season as well as Wayward Pines to tie up the end and make the viewers… Read more »
Great premise. Sorry the show didn’t get picked up for season 2. And, am very sorry Ms Heche elected to wear the aviators through nearly every episode – admit to getting fixated on that and missing a lot that was relevant!
You need at least a season 2 to tell a story. This series deserves a sesond. Great cast that is enthusiastic about the series. Don’t let this be a Firefly mistake, lets see where the rabbit hole goes.
I really enjoyed yet.
Found it entertaining & different from other ones on other channels.
Please bring back
It was a great show I think it owes us a second season!
I thought I was interesting show to watch I watched every episode why cancel it you need to renew it
A very entertaining show that my family and I would watch together, we don’t do that often well not any more thanks SyFy
A show that was very entertaining, my family and I, well we dont watch many show together. Now one less thanks syfy
I think the series was very entertaining. I am really disappointed in SyFy for cancelling it. I think they should really rethink their decision. The characters had really good chemistry, and at the very least they should make a movie or an additional episode that wraps of the series.
This situation brings to mind the series Firefly; which actually gained a cult following after it was cancelled and spawned a movie to tie up the series. I wish they would do the same for Aftermath at the very least!
Finally a good decent dramatic show and boom, canceled. Now we all can watch resident evil every night. Terrible just terrible programming on this channel
This is a brand new series! It was getting good! I don’t understand why you would cancel it so soon
Thank Christ they cancelled……I hope those sunglasses are sucked into another dimension and never seen again.
This is a great syfy shoe please don’t cancel
Please don’t cancel Aftermath. It is a good show. Some of us don’t get Netflix or HBO. There are so few shows my husband and I agree upon.
So tired of Dufy cancelling there good shows and airing the old horror movie crap! It used to be such a good channel.
That was long time ago. Now it is an excuse for someone to get paid a lot of money while putting out lousy programming. Who wouldn’t want this job?