Another Life (2019 TV series)

Another Life is an American science fiction drama streaming television series created by Aaron Martin that premiered on Netflix on July 25, 2019.[1] The series stars Katee Sackhoff, Selma Blair, Justin Chatwin, Samuel Anderson, Elizabeth Ludlow, Blu Hunt, A.J. Rivera, Alexander Eling, Alex Ozerov, Jake Abel, JayR Tinaco, Lina Renna, Jessica Camacho, Barbara Williams, Parveen Dosanjh, Greg Hovanessian, and Chanelle Peloso. In October 2019, the series was renewed for a second season.[2]

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    Another Life
    Genre
    Created byAaron Martin
    Starring
    ComposerTrevor Morris
    Country of originUnited States
    Original languageEnglish
    No. of seasons1
    No. of episodes10 (list of episodes)
    Production
    Executive producers
    • Aaron Martin
    • Noreen Halpern
    • Chris Regina
    Producers
    Production locationsBritish Columbia, Canada
    CinematographyRyan McMaster
    EditorStein Myhrstad
    Camera setupSingle-camera
    Running time37–61 minutes
    Production companies
    • Navy Productions
    • Halfire Entertainment
    DistributorNetflix
    Release
    Original networkNetflix
    Picture format4K (16:9 UHDTV in high dynamic range)
    Audio formatDolby Digital
    Original releaseJuly 25, 2019 (2019-07-25) –
    present (present)
    External links
    Official website

    Synopsis

    A flying object, shaped like a potato chip with the center cut out (i.e. an annulus in a hyperbolic plane), lands on Earth and grows a crystal shell. Erik Wallace (Justin Chatwin), a scientist employed by the United States Interstellar Command, fails to discover a way to communicate with the alien monolith. Wallace's wife, Captain Niko Breckinridge (Katee Sackhoff), takes the spaceship Salvare and its crew to find the origin of the artifact.

    Cast and characters

    Main
    • Katee Sackhoff as Niko Breckinridge, an astronaut who commands a crew on a mission to explore the genesis of an alien artifact. In the first episode, she kills crew mate Ian Yerxa after he tries to mutiny and take control of the Salvare.
    • Justin Chatwin as Erik Wallace, a scientist of the United States Interstellar Command, dedicated to finding intelligent life out in the universe. He is also the husband of Niko and father of Jana Breckinridge-Wallace. On Earth, he investigates the crystal structure created by the UFO.
    • Samuel Anderson as William, a holographic interface of a sentient AI aboard Salvare. He serves as an advisor and friend to Niko throughout season one, and even stands up for her during times of needs. He is seen as a real person by Niko, but nobody else.
    • Blu Hunt as August Catawnee, the lead engineer and youngest member of the crew aboard Salvare.
    • A.J. Rivera as Bernie Martinez, Salvare's microbiologist and part-time chef. In the second and third episode, he brings back a nasty virus from an unknown planet, that kills crewmembers Petra and Julian, before they are able to rid themselves of it. In episode five, Bernie gets infected himself.
    • Jake Abel as Sasha Harrison (season 1), the son of the U.S. Secretary of Defense, serving as the government's representative and diplomatic liaison aboard Salvare. He is seen as weak on the ship, and is often not trusted by his fellow crewmates.
    • Alex Ozerov as Oliver Sokolov, a Salvare engineer.
    • Alexander Eling as Javier Almanzar, a former hacker who is aboard Salvare as an expert in computer engineering.
    • JayR Tinaco as Zayn Petrossian, Salvare's medic.
    • Lina Renna as Jana Breckinridge-Wallace, the daughter of Niko and Erik.
    • Selma Blair as Harper Glass, a media influencer who attempts to break one of the biggest stories in human history.
    • Elizabeth Ludlow as Cas Isakovic, Niko's second-in-command and pilot of Salvare. She is awakened in episode 2.
    • Tongayi Chirisa as Richard Ncube (season 2)[3]

    Recurring
    • Jessica Camacho as Michelle Vargas (season 1), Salvare's communications expert.
    • Barbara Williams as General Blair Dubois, General of United States Interstellar Command, in charge of United States' policy to the artifact.
    • Greg Hovanessian as Beauchamp McCarry, Niko's third-in-command and pilot of Salvare. He is awakened in episode 7.
    • Parveen Dosanjh as Dr. Nani Singh, a scientist who is Erik's friend and co-worker.
    • Chanelle Peloso as Petra Smith (season 1), a crew member of Salvare.

    Episodes

    Season 1 (2019)
    No.
    overall    		No. in
    season    		TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal release date [4]
    11"Across the Universe"Omar MadhaAaron MartinJuly 25, 2019 (2019-07-25)
    One day, a strange unidentified spacecraft appears in the sky, and lands on Earth. A crystal structure forms around it, and it continues to grow towards to sky. Astronaut Niko Breckinridge is chosen to lead an expedition to space to follow a signal emitted from the crystal barrier picked up by Niko's husband, Erik Wallace. One month later, Niko is awakened on a spaceship, the Salvare, and learns from the ship's sentient AI, William, that the ship is already off-course and heading towards the star Sirius A. Niko and the other members of the crew feud, but she is immediately established as the leader, however a failed attempt at trying to get the ship back on-course leads some of the crew to believe that Niko is not fit for the job. Crewmember Ian Yerxa fights Niko to claim her position and puts her into Soma sleep. Yerxa attempts to right the ship's course once again, but again everything goes awry and lead engineer August wakes Niko, who is able to fix everything. Out of hatred and jealousy, Yerxa tries to murder Niko, but she kills himself out of self-defense instead. Back on Earth, Erik makes some headway with the crystalline shell.
    22"Through the Valley of Shadows"Omar MadhaNaledi JacksonJuly 25, 2019 (2019-07-25)
    After a malfunction, the ship begins to lose oxygen and the crew scrambles to stop the leak. Back on Earth, Erik learns that they have lost contact with the Salvare and goes home to spend time with Jana. However he is confronted by Harper Glass, a media personality, and lets slip to her that the Salvare went off course. Niko lands on a planet that they can hopefully drain of oxygen, and to access the surface of the planet, she awakens another crew member, pilot Cas Ivakovic. Two remembers begin to mine on the planet when they discover that they can breathe in the small cavern they are in, while Sasha and Michelle grow close. Pressured by the entire crew to talk about Yerxa's demise, Niko finds William running a program to decipher what Yerxa was thinking when he died. Jana learns of Glass's discovery, and while mining together, Sasha and August share personal interests. Javier discovers a moon on the planet, which Oliver and August narrowly escape. Erik discovers a puzzle hidden in the signals sent out by the shell. Cas mourns the death of Yerxa, her friend, but Petra starts feeling sick.
    33"Nervous Breakdown"Metin HüseyinAlex LevineJuly 25, 2019 (2019-07-25)
    After stabilizing Petra, the rest of the crew continue to do manual repairs to the ship. Glass confronts Erik again, but he brushes her off, much to her disapproval. Niko becomes blinded by whatever infected Petra, and the crew stresses that some of Bernie's soil samples from the planet in the previous episode contained boron. Michelle attacks Niko and Bernie begins to feel isolated from the group. Niko incapacitates her attacker and Zayn, the Salvare's doctor, holds her captive. Though Bernie is not experiencing symptoms, he is revealed to be the source of the virus. Petra is killed due to a gruesome blister on her neck. Feeling terrible, Bernie decides to help develop a cure, which a crewmember named Julian injects into himself, only to find a blister growing on his neck. He makes Bernie eject him from the airlock, but Bernie realizes gamma radiation is the key to the cure, and they blast the ship with the rays, eradicating the virus. The crew goes into Soma sleep for another few months, and William realizes he has evolved beyond his programming and feels lonely. Niko wakes up alone and finds a bloody August and learns that something on the ship is hunting them, and William is nowhere to be found. On Earth, Glass and Erik reconsolidate, somewhat.
    44"Guilt Trip"Metin HüseyinAmanda FaheyJuly 25, 2019 (2019-07-25)
    Niko watches as the crew is picked off one by one. Then, Niko puts herself into Soma sleep, and it is revealed that it was all a dream, and in real life, she isn't waking up as planned. In her dream, Niko relives altered days that were the worst of her life: her funeral, Jana's birthday that she missed, and a talk with DuBois, all while the crew struggle to manually pull her out of Soma sleep correctly. William attempts to communicate with Niko, but Niko returns to her dream to stay with Jana. However, after everything goes wrong, Niko leaves to the dismay of her family. She awakens to find herself in another dream, where her old boyfriend Hudson is on the Salvare. In real life, Michelle locates a moon that possibly supports life, but Cas refuses to fly to it. William finds Niko again, and she is reliving the day she had to let the crew of another ship die. They try over and over again to save the entire crew, but something always happens and Niko keeps repeating the day. Niko sacrifices her old boyfriend Hudson in the dream, and wakes up, then learns that the moon is emitting signals like the ones from the ship on Earth.
    55"A Mind of its Own"Mairzee AlmasRomeo CandidoJuly 25, 2019 (2019-07-25)
    The crew of the Salvare visits the distant moon, which contains breathable air, edible food, and drinkable water. Niko, Cas, Sasha, Zayn, and Bernie g on the planet, where they split up. Cas and Niko feud when Cas reveals that she had been attracted to Yerxa before his death, and now blames Niko for his demise. Sasha tries to initiate first contact on any life forms on the planet, but he is instead sucked into a giant cube lodged in the ground after finding crystals that replicate those found on the shell on Earth. Zayn and Bernie try to find food, but everything they eat is disgusting. Bernie falls on a small stick after an encounter with a live bug, and his appendage soon becomes infected. Zayn heals him, but he is shaken by the attack. Meanwhile, when Erik's job is in danger, he and Harper Glass find a man who seems to know something about the sound waves coming from the shell. The landing party, including Sasha, who has emerged from the cube, escape a giant alien monster and return to the Salvare. On the ship, Javier and Oliver argue, angering August who Oliver eventually kisses. Michelle and Sasha have sex, but are interrupted when Sasha thinks he sees a duplicate of himself from the cube. Unbeknownst to all, baby alien creature sneaks into the ship, and after a malfunction, William disappears.
    66"I Think We're Alone Now"Mairzee AlmasLauren Gosnell & Alejandro AlcobaJuly 25, 2019 (2019-07-25)
    The crew's attempts to bring back William prove futile. Sasha keeps seeing his duplicate, and thinks he's hallucinating because no one else can see it. August finds that the baby alien from the moon caused the fire. Sasha goes to Zayn, and Zayn tells him that nothing's wrong, but continues to help him through his stress. After futile attempts to bring William back, he repairs himself and returns just in time to warn Niko of a fire in the mess hall. Once the damage is too substantial, William initiates the "Go Home Protocol" and sends the Salvare on a course back to Earth. While trying to recouple the ship, Cas lashes out at something Niko said while on the alien moon, and Niko attempts to repair their friendship. While out fixing a section of the ship in space, Niko is detached and sent into the void. The crew figure out a way to go back for Niko, who she, abandoned in space, flashes back to her kidnapping prior to coming on the Salvare. Sasha keeps seeing his duplicate, who convinces him to "let me in." The team realizes that the fire in the hull is causing exotic matter to build up, and they must shut it down. Unable to do it manually, Michelle attempts to turn it off from the inside. She succeeds, but is ripped apart by exotic matter and dies, to Cas' dismay. Meanwhile, Sasha discovers that his duplicate is infecting his mind.
    77"Living the Dream"Allan ArkushLucie PagéJuly 25, 2019 (2019-07-25)
    88"How the Light Gets Lost"Sheree FolksonSean ReycraftJuly 25, 2019 (2019-07-25)
    99"Heart and Soul"Sheree FolksonJackie MayJuly 25, 2019 (2019-07-25)
    1010"Hello"Allan ArkushAaron MartinJuly 25, 2019 (2019-07-25)

    Season 2
    No.
    overall    		No. in
    season    		Title [5]Directed byWritten by [5]Original release date
    111"Live to Fight Another Day"TBAAaron MartinTBA
    122"Smoke and Mirrors"TBALauren GosnellTBA

    Production

    Development

    On April 26, 2018, Netflix announced that it had given the production a series order for a ten-episode first season.[6] The series is created by Aaron Martin who is also credited as an executive producer alongside Noreen Halpern and Chris Regina.[6] On June 19, 2019, it was confirmed that the series would premiere on July 25, 2019.[1] On October 29, 2019, Netflix renewed the series for a second season.[2][7] The series' music is composed by Trevor Morris. Writers for the second season include Martin and Lauren Gosnell.

    Casting

    On April 26, 2018, it was announced that Katee Sackhoff had been cast as a series regular.[6] On August 21, 2018, it was reported that Selma Blair had joined the cast in a recurring role.[8][9] On August 28, 2018, it was announced that Tyler Hoechlin, Justin Chatwin, Samuel Anderson, and Elizabeth Ludlow had joined the cast.[10] The following day, Blu Hunt joined the cast.[11] In September 2018, the rest of the main cast was revealed.[12] On June 23, 2020, Tongayi Chirisa was cast as a series regular while Dillon Casey, Shannon Chan-Kent, and Kurt Yaeger joined the cast in recurring roles for the second season.[3]

    Filming

    Filming for the first season took place on location in Vancouver, British Columbia, from August 20, 2018, to November 20, 2018.[13] Filming for the second season was expected to begin on March 2, 2020, and conclude on June 9, 2020,[14] but was put on hold due to COVID-19 pandemic.[15][16] Filming for the second season resumed on August 28, 2020, and was scheduled to conclude on November 24, 2020.[17] Filming was delayed once again and instead concluded in December of that year.[18]

    Release

    The first season, consisting of ten episodes, varying in length from 37 to 61 minutes, was released in its entirety on July 25, 2019 on Netflix.[1]

    Reception

    Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports that 6% of 18 critic ratings are positive for the series, with an average rating of 4.54/10. The website's consensus reads, "A hodgepodge of science fiction homage, Another Life lacks the distinctive spark necessary to set it apart from the array of stories it aspires to be".[19] Metacritic calculated an average score of 33 out of 100, based on 8 reviews, citing "generally unfavorable reviews".[20]

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    10. Petski, Denise (August 28, 2018). "'Another Life': Tyler Hoechlin, Justin Chatwin, Samuel Anderson & Elizabeth Faith Ludlow Join Netflix Sci-Fi Drama". Deadline Hollywood.
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