The Counterpart
The story This is a strange one. You cannot quite compare it to any mainstream show, but at the same time it feels familiar. Fringe maybe? Not really. It's not that shallow at all. I would say that it reminds me of a cancelled BBC America's drama "The Game". It has that familiar atmosphere and dynamics. And a lot of British actors which, as we all know, means quality. "The Counterpart" follows a story of Howard Silk (J.K. Simmons) and his wife, Emily (Olivia Williams). He is very much still in love with her and brings her daily flowers to a hospital, where she ended up after a traffic accident. Emily is in a coma and not responsive. Howard is a man with almost no friends and with a job in a bureaucratic UN agency based in Berlin. That's where the story gets interesting. One day, Howard meets his identical counterpart. It turns out that the East German scientist created a copy of their dimension. I say their, because the Howard's is a copy, which
