Continuum: Season 1

Awesome series...

I stumbled upon this after seeing ads on Syfy (still think they could've figured out a better way to trademark their name).The basic plot involves a future "protector" from the year 2077 who gets literally caught up in a plot by a terrorist group to travel back in time and change the future to their advantage. The future, in this case, is a cyberpunk-inspired corporate-ruled world where your phone company could also be the one you pay taxes to.The cast is largely unknowns unless you've caught Rachel Nichols in GI Joe or the Star Trek reboot, though there are some familiar faces, especially if you're a fan of Canadian (esp. Vancouver) originated TV series. Despite that, they're a great bunch. Don't expect Hollywood performances or high budgets here but even so, it still feels really slick with the future scenes well put together.It doesn't spoil anything to say the core of the series takes place in modern day Vancouver. Our main character, Kiera Cameron, with the help of someone with a surprise connection to the future, manages to slip into a modern day identity allowing her to mimic her original role as a protector and ally with the local authorities to continue her mission: to stop the terrorists from unleashing whatever their plans are before the future is completely changed.Each episode does what you expect, furthering the main plot while giving you a B plot that fits well into an episode. In a way, it becomes something like a procedural crime drama (but nowhere near one so don't try this because you like Law and Order and figure this is Law and Order 2077). Because of where the main protagonist and antagonists come from, it's never too straight-forward.I'm trying to think of a series to compare it against and it's really hard to think of a good one that doesn't tarnish the perception of what this series is or does. I suggest watching the preview since it's free. It's not as silly as Warehouse 13 or Eureka (though I'm a fan of both shows despite that), yet they don't take themselves too seriously either. Often enough, there'll be a situation where Kiera ends up using her tech or her new contact to help solve a crime that she has to explain away. I'm hoping with season 2 (which they've started filming so yay!) they'll let Carlos, the detective from the present played by Victor Webster that she's partnered up with, get the upper hand once in a while. With this season (so far), he ends up being this sort of straight-guy to Kiera's almost magical abilities: using truth serum on perps to get answers, getting classified or sealed documents, disabling a perp with a shock from her special 2077-issued uniform that doubles as a swiss army knife of tools for a future cop. It makes sense of course, and it eventually becomes a joke where he's writing it off with a "I'm not even going to ask!"All in all, it's an enjoyable romp and creates a nice mixture of danger and Law-and-Order type procedural drama with an ample dose of science fiction (with the inevitable discussion of time paradoxes and theories). Rachel Nichols plays the determined and rule-bending cop well even as she has to cope with the life she left behind...uh...in the future. It's an interesting play on the time travel plot and does seem to pick sides in the time travel paradox debate (i.e. if you go back into the past and interfere with your parents' meeting, will you disappear because you were never born or will the NEW future--or future in a new dimension--just be what follows in the current timeline?) though it leaves open where that might lead.I'm looking forward to the remaining episodes (we're about half way through the season on SyFy) and the next season. Note that the full season has played out in Canada already...we're getting it late but I see that as a bonus. If it wasn't that good, it never would've made it here. I ended up picking up in the middle of the first half of the season and needed to pick up the episodes I wasn't able to record. Even so, I suspect, maybe a year or two down the line, I'll be picking up the Blu-Rays for this series. Stay tuned!

One of the best series.

This is the best television series ever made besides x-files, So just an fyi i was only able to buy season one and four im missing 2 and 3 and wished they had it on amazon prime, This show is literally telling our future in present day all the way to 3070 it is the biggest eye opener for a show ever! you cant get all four seasons and they blocked the show from buying it digitally everywhere.

The writers are on the right track by not leading the viewers to take a side. I want businesses to thrive but I also want a good and honest government, Continuum makes choosing a side in this storyline so far impossible. Do you go with the freedom fighters who are for the people but at the same time are anarchists and in the future having to resort to terrorism to bring attention to a corrupt government and people controlling businesses? Or, do you stand by free enterprise to grow and make a profit as a free society is meant to be? I understand the points of view of both sides in both time periods but the lost of virtually all Rights is something that we see happening in America today. And the taking over of small businesses by big money and large corporations is also happening in America today. Today and the future are working towards socialism in their own way and both demonstrates how the future of a once free with the potential to be prosperous society can be lost to regulations by a too big of a government and that government being in debted to and in allianced with just a few very large corporations. Control of the people by one entity or the other or a in a combination of both is unfolding right in front of our eyes today and the everyday person does not see it happening and would soon just accept things without question. That is when anacrchist and radicals start to destroy everything both the good and the bad and leaving the people, businesses and the government to take drastic measures inwhich no good can come of it. As I said, I can see both sides in both time periods and the writers have a great story here just as long as they do not start taking sides, villianizing one side in one time period and then the other in the other time period. No anti-business leanings, no environmental leanings, no government control leanings no politics leanings but show only the truth of today and magnify todays thruths with different senarios and outcomes for the future. That is what will lead to a very successful series. Keep their heads, show all sides and points of view without letting political correctness, corporation influence, unions, anarchist and world opinion of today's America dictate the storyline. I say America when I know this takes place in Canada but since I do not know Canadian laws and lifestyles I can only speak of what I see today in the U.S.A.

Continuum isn’t just a time traveling science fiction series. It’s a profound story on the ideals of individual freedom and populism Vs societal utopian ideals that are undermined by their authoritarian methods. Kira is law enforcement from the future and finds herself caught in the middle. She discovers that everything isn’t as it appears and is forced to choose sides.This series needs to be watched in its entirety as the seasons flip the narrative and perspectives of the story. Unfortunately, this series is not only out of production. It has been pulled from every streaming service. The only way to watch it is to buy it, if you can find it.

設定にやや無理があるのが気になりますが、娯楽作品として楽しめます。シーズン２が楽しみです。

吹き替えがあると思い購入したのですが、英語のみ・・・字幕も英語のみ・・・・以前、海外から購入したＶは音声も字幕も日本語があったので同じと思ったのですが・・・

I bought this DVD having watched all four seasons on Netflix because it was good enough that I wanted to watch it again. I have tried to avoid any serious spoilers in this review but some people may feel that my attempt to give an overview of what the show is about includes some mild ones.Continuum is a very clever time-travel series made and set in Canada, with most of the action taking place in Vancouver, about a group of terrorists and a police officer from 2077 who are all sent back in time to 2012..The story begins in the 2070's in a dystopian future. Governments have been replaced by a corporate police state run by very powerful and ruthless corporations through a Global Corporate Congress whose chairman and the most powerful man in the world is 82-year old Alec Sadler, an electronics genius who was founder and CEO of a vast mega-corporation called SadTech. Sadler is like a Bill Gates figure who instead of using his wealth for philanthropy used it to take over the world but he is an embodiment of the line from the bible, "What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul."Sadler is portrayed as an octogenarian in the first episode and flashbacks to 2077 by William Davis and as an idealistic teenage who is one of the show's main characters in the second decade of the 21st century by Eric Knudsen.The preface for the introductory sequence in Season one (and two) apart from the pilot episode, shows pictures of the central character, 2077 "Protector" (police officer) Kiera Cameron, played by Rachel Nichols, with her husband and son, and a voiceover which reads as follows:"2077. My time, my city, my family. When terrorists killed thousands of innocents, they were condemned to die. But they had other plans. A time travel device sent us all back sixty-five years. I want to get home, but I can't be sure what I will return to if history is changed. Their plan: to corrupt and control the present in order to win the future. What they didn't plan on was me."A group of terrorists called Liber8 kill thousands of people to try to get twenty - the Corporate Congress leadership - and are sentenced to death. However, they trigger a device which sends them back in time to 2012, and Kiera Cameron is, apparently accidentally, sent back with them.Kiera forms an alliance with Detective Carlos Fonnegra (Victor Webster) of the Vancouver Police Department, to try to limit the harm done by the terrorists, who continue their war against the corporations of the late 21st century by attacking those of 2012 - some of which are forerunners of the corporations which formed the Corporate Congress.Kiera has various high tech equipment implanted in her body and in the "Protector" suit she is wearing which provides all sorts of opportunities for special effects SF trickery, and also when she arrives in 2012 these put her in touch with the 17-year-old Alec Sadler, who at this stage in his life is innocent and idealistic but a technical genius and already working on some of the communications devices built into Kiera's suit and implants . He and Carlos become Kiera's main friends and allies in 2012.One good thing about this series IMHO is that it isn't black and white - most people will not approve of the methods of the Liber8 terrorists but their criticisms of the Corporate congress of the future and often of the way those corporations are already operating in 2012 are entirely justified. Kiera Cameron always tries to work within the law, protect the innocent, bring the guilty to justice using due process and avoid using lethal force unless she really has to - but you gradually come to realise as the story develops just how evil the corporate system which her wish to protect people has led her to serve really is, and how little it deserves her loyalty.Another clever aspect of the series is the way it leaves you guessing about whether time travel can change the past. Throughout the first season and indeed and until not long before the end of the four-season story, what you see is carefully kept consistent with multiple possible ways that the consequences of time travel might work.This first season has ten episodes and seasons two and three have thirteen and thirteen episodes respectively, gradually getting more and more complicated as the answers to some questions are eventually provided but give rise to further questions about what is going on.The creator of the series had originally envisaged it as having seven to ten seasons, but the decision was taken by "Showcase" that the story would be finished in a fourth and final season of six episodes. The ending provided by those final six episodes works, but it does come over as a bit rushed, particularly in the final episode.I thought the acting in this series was generally pretty good, the special effects excellent, the treatment of time travel very clever and the handling of complex ethical issues more sophisticated than usual for a TV science fiction show.Overall I can recommend this series. But be aware, this season story is not stand-alone. If you buy this season one and like it, you'll have to watch the other three seasons to find out what's really going on and whether Kiera ever gets home.

You always remember your first time, don't you? The first time I saw 'The X Files'.....the first time that I saw '24'....Yep, 'Continuum' is, to me, right up there...The premise is this. The year is 2077. The place, Vancouver. Corporations have overtaken politicians to rule the country. A terrorist group, Liber8, are trying to bring change to the high-tech surveillance Police State that the world has become. As tens of thousands of people die in the conflict, Liber8's Leader, Edouard Kagame, is arrested by Kiera Cameron, a City Protection Services (CPS) Law Enforcement Officer, and brought to justice, along with his group.Kiera is just doing her job; she a married mother of a pre pubescent boy.When the group from Liber8 are sentenced to execution, and in the process of said act, use a smuggled time machine device to escape, inadvertently Kiera manages to find herself transported back in time herself....to 2012.Whilst Liber8 plan to continue their terrorist acts on the corporations to, in effect, stop the future from happening, Kiera attempts to foil their schemes.Kiera find herself involved with the Vancouver Police Department and, alongside Detective Carlos Fonnegra, track down the members of Liber8 and thwart their plans, whilst keeping her identity secret.Kiera is assisted in her crusade by Alec Sadler, a young teen who is as surprised as Kiera that the tech that had built - a special com unit to communicate with user, visually and audial, and record data....via use of a chip implanted in the user - actually works. Of course, this is all part of Kiera's setup for being a CPS Law Enforcer in 2077; A standard piece of kit.Imagine the surprise....the tech actually works.....and, from Kiera's perspective, she's been sent back in time.....and the Older Alec, from the future, seems to have had some part to play in what has happened.From Violence, Liber8 gradually change to running a campaign of winning over 'Hearts & Minds'...Kiera finds herself as a fish out of water....wanting to stop the rebellion but also wanting to put back together the pieces of the time machine device and go back home to the future and her family.As the series goes on, we see flashbacks (flash forwards?!?) of the world in 2077; of the events that transpired on execution day, of the characters and political underhandedness going on....Was Kiera's going back in time just coincidence or something planned?The only reminder of her son is a model soldier that he gave her on the morning of the execution.All the cast play a blinder. Rachel Nichols, as Kiera, does a very nuanced portrayal of the lead role, as does Erik Knudsen, who plays the young Alec. It's a great ensemble.....beautifully shot....great scripts....great story arcs....well paced....great action....great drama....with lots of twists and turns.The series really does make you think....and it certainly makes Kiera think....that will changing the past effect what happens in the future? Will she be able to get back to her family? Will her family even EXIST in the future?Brilliant....just brilliant...😎

This entertaining Canadian SF crime drama series has both an intriguing premise and a complex storyline. Initially we are introduced to the dystopian, high-surveillance Orwellian police state of the North American Union in the year 2077, an undemocratic oligarchy ruled by corporations supported by advanced technology and a harsh judicial system. Convicted of murder and terrorism a bunch of self-proclaimed freedom-fighters manage to evade execution by travelling back to 2012 where they intend to alter the future by changing the past. However, also inadvertently journeying back through the time portal is Kiera Cameron, a female Protector (a technologically enhanced law enforcement officer) determined to hunt down the terrorists and to somehow return back to the future where her family awaits. Thus the scene is set for ten edge-of-your-seat episodes as Kiera inveigles herself into the Vancouver Police Department assuming the role of a special agent from a secretive section of the Government no-one has ever heard of and begins the task of hunting down members of the terrorist cell Liber8, who have already started causing havoc in the Canadian city. Assisting her in this work are some delightful technological gizmos (such as her cybernetic visual/brain implants and an amazing advanced super-jumpsuit) and a teenage genius who is not only able to connect with Kiera but also has a great influence in the overall series narrative arc. The combination of a police-procedural drama within a SF action-adventure series is masterfully presented with countless plot twists and fascinating observations which both engage and challenge. All the actors give splendid performances with Stephen Lobo’s character Kellog hinting at a particularly devious character in the mould of Battlestar Gallactica’s Gaius Baltar. Totally absorbing and totally looking forward to watching Season 2.