David Haller’s father is coming home: FX’s Legion has cast Game of Thrones veteran Harry Lloyd to play X-Men leader Charles Xavier, aka Professor X, in the upcoming third and final season, the network has confirmed.
In addition, Stephanie Corneliussen (Mr. Robot) will play David’s mother Gabrielle in Season 3. Legion announced the news on Monday via its official Twitter account:
Noah Hawley is pleased to announce two guest castings for the final year of #LegionFX
Stephanie Corneliussen will play David Haller’s mother, “Gabrielle,” and Harry Lloyd will play his father, “Professor X.”
— Legion (@LegionFX) February 5, 2019
Professor...
In addition, Stephanie Corneliussen (Mr. Robot) will play David’s mother Gabrielle in Season 3. Legion announced the news on Monday via its official Twitter account:
Noah Hawley is pleased to announce two guest castings for the final year of #LegionFX
Stephanie Corneliussen will play David Haller’s mother, “Gabrielle,” and Harry Lloyd will play his father, “Professor X.”
— Legion (@LegionFX) February 5, 2019
Professor...
- 2/5/2019
- TVLine.com
Many of you claim watching this series often makes you more confused as time passes.
Counterpart Season 2 Episode 7 shouldn't do anything to make that situation easier, as the more that gets revealed about Ian, the more difficult it is to understand. Just when it seemed he might not be that integral to the proceedings, he becomes a highlight.
Similarly, everything we thought we knew about Mira continues to unravel, as she didn't treat all of the students with the same disdain as she did Clare. What do we really know about these characters at all?
Does anybody have a good read on Wesley Pierce/Ian Shaw?
His backstory has dropped in too many short bursts to keep it straight. It was on Counterpart Season 2 Episode 2 when we saw Ian and a team infiltrating a man's house only to find he was already dead.
With the scattershot way his information has been disseminated,...
Counterpart Season 2 Episode 7 shouldn't do anything to make that situation easier, as the more that gets revealed about Ian, the more difficult it is to understand. Just when it seemed he might not be that integral to the proceedings, he becomes a highlight.
Similarly, everything we thought we knew about Mira continues to unravel, as she didn't treat all of the students with the same disdain as she did Clare. What do we really know about these characters at all?
Does anybody have a good read on Wesley Pierce/Ian Shaw?
His backstory has dropped in too many short bursts to keep it straight. It was on Counterpart Season 2 Episode 2 when we saw Ian and a team infiltrating a man's house only to find he was already dead.
With the scattershot way his information has been disseminated,...
- 1/28/2019
- by Carissa Pavlica
- TVfanatic
And I thought the prison reveal was going to be exciting.
There are so many tricks up the sleeves of the Counterpart team; it's impossible to guess what's in store for the group of spies trying to keep tabs on different worlds.
"Our" Howard, Howard Alpha, will become a huge disappoint to me, personally, if he doesn't get a fire lit under his behind while inside of Echo. He didn't quite understand what "being a spy" meant before Counterpart Season 2 Episode 3, and he's only scraping the surface on his first day with the locals.
Echo wasn't as expected. The way it sounded, he was going into hell.
For those who have been there years on end as nothing but an encyclopedic knowledge of their counterparts, it probably seems like hell.
Having worked in Strategy, even in a lowly occupation like Howard A's, he knew a lot of the faces housed in the facility.
There are so many tricks up the sleeves of the Counterpart team; it's impossible to guess what's in store for the group of spies trying to keep tabs on different worlds.
"Our" Howard, Howard Alpha, will become a huge disappoint to me, personally, if he doesn't get a fire lit under his behind while inside of Echo. He didn't quite understand what "being a spy" meant before Counterpart Season 2 Episode 3, and he's only scraping the surface on his first day with the locals.
Echo wasn't as expected. The way it sounded, he was going into hell.
For those who have been there years on end as nothing but an encyclopedic knowledge of their counterparts, it probably seems like hell.
Having worked in Strategy, even in a lowly occupation like Howard A's, he knew a lot of the faces housed in the facility.
- 12/24/2018
- by Carissa Pavlica
- TVfanatic
Starz’s science-fiction thriller Counterpart has crossed into its second season, where the mysteries only continue to intensify as viewers and co-star Harry Lloyd are placed into 1987 Berlin.
The series created by Justin Marks finds Academy Award-winning actor J.K. Simmons in a dual role as he navigates parallel lives as an employee of a spy agency, Howard Silk, in two different worlds (the “Prime world” and the “Alpha world").
Lloyd plays Peter Quayle, an operative and colleague of Silk, and told The Hollywood Reporter In Studio that the theme of season two came together ...
The series created by Justin Marks finds Academy Award-winning actor J.K. Simmons in a dual role as he navigates parallel lives as an employee of a spy agency, Howard Silk, in two different worlds (the “Prime world” and the “Alpha world").
Lloyd plays Peter Quayle, an operative and colleague of Silk, and told The Hollywood Reporter In Studio that the theme of season two came together ...
- 12/10/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Counterpart‘s doubly delicious spy games resume this Sunday at 9/8c, when Starz’s sci-fi tinged espionage drama opens Season 2.
During the series’ freshman run, Howard Silk (played by J.K. Simmons), a low-level wonk at the Office of Interchange in Berlin, was introduced to his “other” — the Howard Silk from a top-secret parallel world. A stone-cold, highly skilled spy, Howard “Prime” had covertly traveled to our side to track an assassin named Baldwin (Sara Serraiocco), then stuck around to complete his mission. The kindly, meek Howard in turn had to take his dickish doppelganger’s place over there, where he...
During the series’ freshman run, Howard Silk (played by J.K. Simmons), a low-level wonk at the Office of Interchange in Berlin, was introduced to his “other” — the Howard Silk from a top-secret parallel world. A stone-cold, highly skilled spy, Howard “Prime” had covertly traveled to our side to track an assassin named Baldwin (Sara Serraiocco), then stuck around to complete his mission. The kindly, meek Howard in turn had to take his dickish doppelganger’s place over there, where he...
- 12/9/2018
- TVLine.com
When it debuted earlier this year, I compared Starz’s Counterpart simultaneously to The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, Fringe and The Parent Trap. Such was the unlikely yet appealing combination of genres and tones used to tell the story of Howard Silk (J.K. Simmons), a meek government bureaucrat who discovers that there’s a parallel reality whose own Howard Silk is a ruthless spy. At times it was a calculated Cold War thriller, at times a wistful sci-fi tale about the divergences between the two worlds, at...
- 12/6/2018
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Rollingstone.com
Michael Ahr Dec 4, 2018
The spy game heats up in Counterpart season 2, and creator/executive producer Justin Marks tells us what to expect when the show returns.
Counterpart season 2 will return to the Office of Interchange, a secretive international organization charged with gathering intelligence and maintaining diplomatic relations across a bridge between parallel worlds. Since this “Crossing,” as it’s called, was closed at the end of last year’s finale, the second season promises to be quite different with new tensions between those in power and among the spies who were cut off from their world of origin. Creator and executive producer Justin Marks helps clarify where the show left off and focuses viewer attention on what’s to come for several of the new and returning characters.
Counterpart stages its spy thriller in modern day Berlin, where history branched off into a new reality thirty years ago. “Berlin really...
The spy game heats up in Counterpart season 2, and creator/executive producer Justin Marks tells us what to expect when the show returns.
Counterpart season 2 will return to the Office of Interchange, a secretive international organization charged with gathering intelligence and maintaining diplomatic relations across a bridge between parallel worlds. Since this “Crossing,” as it’s called, was closed at the end of last year’s finale, the second season promises to be quite different with new tensions between those in power and among the spies who were cut off from their world of origin. Creator and executive producer Justin Marks helps clarify where the show left off and focuses viewer attention on what’s to come for several of the new and returning characters.
Counterpart stages its spy thriller in modern day Berlin, where history branched off into a new reality thirty years ago. “Berlin really...
- 11/21/2018
- Den of Geek
Twice the Howards, twice the J.K. Simmons, twice the number of seasons of “Counterpart” premiering in 2018.
In another double move, the Starz drama released a full trailer for its second season 2 months ahead of the release date, showing a world where both Howard Silks (Simmons) are grappling with the ramifications of their season-closing swap. One is particularly not happy (and this time he has a convenient growth of stubble to help audiences start to tell the two of them apart).
Part of that may coincide with the arrival of James Cromwell’s overseer of sorts, making sure that the captured Howard Prime stays in his detention facility. This first glimpse at Season 2 also makes a quick introduction for Betty Gabriel’s new character, an ex-FBI specialist trying to suss out the double agent inside the office led by Peter Quayle (Harry Lloyd).
It also looks like Quayle’s got...
In another double move, the Starz drama released a full trailer for its second season 2 months ahead of the release date, showing a world where both Howard Silks (Simmons) are grappling with the ramifications of their season-closing swap. One is particularly not happy (and this time he has a convenient growth of stubble to help audiences start to tell the two of them apart).
Part of that may coincide with the arrival of James Cromwell’s overseer of sorts, making sure that the captured Howard Prime stays in his detention facility. This first glimpse at Season 2 also makes a quick introduction for Betty Gabriel’s new character, an ex-FBI specialist trying to suss out the double agent inside the office led by Peter Quayle (Harry Lloyd).
It also looks like Quayle’s got...
- 10/15/2018
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Emmy winner and Oscar nominee James Cromwell (American Horror Story) is set for a major recurring role opposite J.K. Simmons in Season 2 of Starz’s spy thriller Counterpart.
Cromwell will play Yanek, the enigmatic warden of Echo, an underground facility where Howard (Simmons) finds himself fighting for his life.
Created, written, and executive produced by Justin Marks, Counterpart is about a mysterious world hidden beneath the surface of our everyday existence. It stars Simmons as Howard Silk, a lowly cog in the bureaucratic machinery of a Berlin-based United Nations spy agency. When Howard discovers that his organization safeguards the secret of a crossing into a parallel dimension, he is thrust into a shadow world of intrigue, danger, and double cross… where the only man he can trust is his near-identical counterpart from this parallel world. The show explores themes of identity, fate and lost love, posing the eternal question, “what...
Cromwell will play Yanek, the enigmatic warden of Echo, an underground facility where Howard (Simmons) finds himself fighting for his life.
Created, written, and executive produced by Justin Marks, Counterpart is about a mysterious world hidden beneath the surface of our everyday existence. It stars Simmons as Howard Silk, a lowly cog in the bureaucratic machinery of a Berlin-based United Nations spy agency. When Howard discovers that his organization safeguards the secret of a crossing into a parallel dimension, he is thrust into a shadow world of intrigue, danger, and double cross… where the only man he can trust is his near-identical counterpart from this parallel world. The show explores themes of identity, fate and lost love, posing the eternal question, “what...
- 5/23/2018
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
[This story contains spoilers through the first nine episodes of Starz's Counterpart.]
"Love the lie."
On Starz's breakout spy-fi drama Counterpart, that one phrase sums up the state of practically all of the interpersonal relationships presented in the J.K. Simmons starrer. After all, any show dealing with espionage is all about secrets, lies, obfuscation and what happens when those secrets and lies are uncovered.
Case in point: Peter Quayle (Harry Lloyd), a highly placed leader in the U.N. spy organization called the Office of Interchange, must decide how to handle the revelation that his wife ...
"Love the lie."
On Starz's breakout spy-fi drama Counterpart, that one phrase sums up the state of practically all of the interpersonal relationships presented in the J.K. Simmons starrer. After all, any show dealing with espionage is all about secrets, lies, obfuscation and what happens when those secrets and lies are uncovered.
Case in point: Peter Quayle (Harry Lloyd), a highly placed leader in the U.N. spy organization called the Office of Interchange, must decide how to handle the revelation that his wife ...
- 3/23/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Michael Ahr Nov 25, 2018
Counterpart season 2 will be returning to Starz in time for the holidays. Here's everything you need to know.
Counterpart season 2 was already a sure thing before Starz introduced this mind-bending, parallel worlds spy thriller to audiences, since the show began with a two season order. As of February of 2018, the second season began production even before season one aired its finale. We've been enjoying this show since the very beginning and are already anticipating the new twists that Counterpart season 2 will undoubtedly throw our way.
Counterpart is created, written, and produced by Justin Marks and tells its story through the eyes of Howard Silk, played by J. K. Simmons, who discovers that the secretive Un-type organization he works for protects a passage between two very different versions of Earth, each trying to exploit the advantages of the other. In season one, he works to uncover a...
Counterpart season 2 will be returning to Starz in time for the holidays. Here's everything you need to know.
Counterpart season 2 was already a sure thing before Starz introduced this mind-bending, parallel worlds spy thriller to audiences, since the show began with a two season order. As of February of 2018, the second season began production even before season one aired its finale. We've been enjoying this show since the very beginning and are already anticipating the new twists that Counterpart season 2 will undoubtedly throw our way.
Counterpart is created, written, and produced by Justin Marks and tells its story through the eyes of Howard Silk, played by J. K. Simmons, who discovers that the secretive Un-type organization he works for protects a passage between two very different versions of Earth, each trying to exploit the advantages of the other. In season one, he works to uncover a...
- 3/19/2018
- Den of Geek
Michael Ahr Oct 15, 2018
Counterpart season 2 will be returning to Starz in 2019. Here's everything you need to know.
Counterpart season 2 was already a sure thing before Starz introduced this mind-bending, parallel worlds spy thriller to audiences, since the show began with a two season order. As of February of 2018, the second season began production even before season one aired its finale. We've been enjoying this show since the very beginning and are already anticipating the new twists that Counterpart season 2 will undoubtedly throw our way.
Counterpart is created, written, and produced by Justin Marks and tells its story through the eyes of Howard Silk, played by J. K. Simmons, who discovers that the secretive Un-type organization he works for protects a passage between two very different versions of Earth, each trying to exploit the advantages of the other. In season one, he works to uncover a conspiracy with his sometimes...
Counterpart season 2 will be returning to Starz in 2019. Here's everything you need to know.
Counterpart season 2 was already a sure thing before Starz introduced this mind-bending, parallel worlds spy thriller to audiences, since the show began with a two season order. As of February of 2018, the second season began production even before season one aired its finale. We've been enjoying this show since the very beginning and are already anticipating the new twists that Counterpart season 2 will undoubtedly throw our way.
Counterpart is created, written, and produced by Justin Marks and tells its story through the eyes of Howard Silk, played by J. K. Simmons, who discovers that the secretive Un-type organization he works for protects a passage between two very different versions of Earth, each trying to exploit the advantages of the other. In season one, he works to uncover a conspiracy with his sometimes...
- 3/19/2018
- Den of Geek
What was your initial reaction when the credits rolled?
Mine was, "F#@k me!"
That's because Counterpart Season 1 Episode 7 was a perfect hour. From start to finish it played out beautifully and gave Clare the history we desperately craved with a stunning finish to keep us guessing. What more could we possibly want?
Nazanin Boniadi was fantastic as Fera on Homeland, but her material as Clare is much juicer. It's a joy watching her control an entire storyline like she is here and if she seems to be locked into the spy category, her ability to train her emotions demands it.
I watched Clare be torn down as a human being, stripped of her individuality, turned into a person she didn't know to avenge a country based only on the word of a teacher and school she was taken to at the worst moment of her life.
It's time to...
Mine was, "F#@k me!"
That's because Counterpart Season 1 Episode 7 was a perfect hour. From start to finish it played out beautifully and gave Clare the history we desperately craved with a stunning finish to keep us guessing. What more could we possibly want?
Nazanin Boniadi was fantastic as Fera on Homeland, but her material as Clare is much juicer. It's a joy watching her control an entire storyline like she is here and if she seems to be locked into the spy category, her ability to train her emotions demands it.
I watched Clare be torn down as a human being, stripped of her individuality, turned into a person she didn't know to avenge a country based only on the word of a teacher and school she was taken to at the worst moment of her life.
It's time to...
- 3/5/2018
- by Carissa Pavlica
- TVfanatic
Get Out standout Betty Gabriel has joined the Season 2 cast of Starz’s spy thriller Counterpart, with production set to begin Wednesday in Berlin. Gabriel will play the new series regular role of Naya Temple, a former FBI agent recently hired by the Office of Interchange to clean house, a figure both intimidating and magnetic. She joins J.K. Simmons as Howard Silk, Olivia Williams as Emily Burton Silk, Harry Lloyd as Peter Quayle, Nicholas Pinnock as Ian Shaw, Nazanin…...
- 2/26/2018
- Deadline TV
[Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers for the “Counterpart” Season 1, Episode 6, “Act Like You’ve Been Here Before.”]
When a show starts off establishing a world with an entire parallel existence, there aren’t many other places to go to shock an audience. But at the end of Episode 6 of “Counterpart,” the show delivered its most seismic twist so far.
An hour that saw the brutal end of jovial undercover Alpha butcher shop owner Heinrich, the true identity of Alexander Pope’s man on the inside, and some creative use of pangrams also brought the series’ most mysterious character into focus. Turns out that Clare, the middle-class supermarket shopper also doubling as an envoy for Baldwin the assassin, is actually the wife of Peter Quayle, Director of Strategy for the series’ inter-reality spy agency.
In the waning moments of the season’s sixth hour, Quayle (Harry Lloyd) finally puts the pieces together, realizing that the search for the mole inside Strategy has led him the one person he never suspected.
When a show starts off establishing a world with an entire parallel existence, there aren’t many other places to go to shock an audience. But at the end of Episode 6 of “Counterpart,” the show delivered its most seismic twist so far.
An hour that saw the brutal end of jovial undercover Alpha butcher shop owner Heinrich, the true identity of Alexander Pope’s man on the inside, and some creative use of pangrams also brought the series’ most mysterious character into focus. Turns out that Clare, the middle-class supermarket shopper also doubling as an envoy for Baldwin the assassin, is actually the wife of Peter Quayle, Director of Strategy for the series’ inter-reality spy agency.
In the waning moments of the season’s sixth hour, Quayle (Harry Lloyd) finally puts the pieces together, realizing that the search for the mole inside Strategy has led him the one person he never suspected.
- 2/26/2018
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
One of the benefits of a second watch through so early in the game is seeing the clues laid out along the way for the fun reveals.
On Counterpart Season 1 Episode 6 the two stories were finally tied together, even if there is still a long way to go until we discover the details of the other side's plan to take over the worlds.
I didn't see any chatter that correctly outed the mole before the reveal. That's some pretty good writing, folks.
The hour as a whole was somewhat disjointed, but I think it was done intentionally so the reveal would slap you upside the head at the end.
There has been so little contact with the latest team who arrived to be integrated into the embassy that it's almost easy to forget they're here.
Related: Counterpart Season 1 Episode 5 Review: Shaking the Tree
But Clare has been working very hard...
On Counterpart Season 1 Episode 6 the two stories were finally tied together, even if there is still a long way to go until we discover the details of the other side's plan to take over the worlds.
I didn't see any chatter that correctly outed the mole before the reveal. That's some pretty good writing, folks.
The hour as a whole was somewhat disjointed, but I think it was done intentionally so the reveal would slap you upside the head at the end.
There has been so little contact with the latest team who arrived to be integrated into the embassy that it's almost easy to forget they're here.
Related: Counterpart Season 1 Episode 5 Review: Shaking the Tree
But Clare has been working very hard...
- 2/26/2018
- by Carissa Pavlica
- TVfanatic
The Howards are going through with their plan to change places.
That means on Counterpart Season 1 Episode 4, Howard will have to step up the pace as he enters the other side to take the place of OHoward.
What will he find when he gets there? This trailer gives us no idea whatsoever.
It does provide intel on what OHoward will be doing while he's wearing Howard's clothes.
He appears to be interrogating a man in a deli, asking what he might know about Alexander Pope, including why AP would be interested in bringing an assassin to this side.
Why Would Pope want an assassin over here?
Related: Counterpart Season 1 Episode 2 Review: Birds of a Feather
Who does he want to kill, or better yet, who does he want to replace with his own man from the other side?
What's highly amusing is listening to Peter Quayle talk a big game.
That means on Counterpart Season 1 Episode 4, Howard will have to step up the pace as he enters the other side to take the place of OHoward.
What will he find when he gets there? This trailer gives us no idea whatsoever.
It does provide intel on what OHoward will be doing while he's wearing Howard's clothes.
He appears to be interrogating a man in a deli, asking what he might know about Alexander Pope, including why AP would be interested in bringing an assassin to this side.
Why Would Pope want an assassin over here?
Related: Counterpart Season 1 Episode 2 Review: Birds of a Feather
Who does he want to kill, or better yet, who does he want to replace with his own man from the other side?
What's highly amusing is listening to Peter Quayle talk a big game.
- 2/9/2018
- by Carissa Pavlica
- TVfanatic
Having previously dabbled in time travel with Outlander, Starz this Sunday got into the alternate universe business. Was the spy-fi drama Counterpart compelling enough to make you do a… double take?
VIDEOSOutlander Sneak Peek Is Hiding Something Crucial to Season 4
Counterpart stars J.K. Simmons (you say Whiplash, I’ll say The Closer) as Howard Silk, a low-level cog at a Berlin-based U.N. agency dubbed The Office of Interchange, where he for decades has diligently toiled as an Interface. Howard’s day is routine in every way, starting with a game of Go at the park with his friend Andrei, after which he reports to work,...
VIDEOSOutlander Sneak Peek Is Hiding Something Crucial to Season 4
Counterpart stars J.K. Simmons (you say Whiplash, I’ll say The Closer) as Howard Silk, a low-level cog at a Berlin-based U.N. agency dubbed The Office of Interchange, where he for decades has diligently toiled as an Interface. Howard’s day is routine in every way, starting with a game of Go at the park with his friend Andrei, after which he reports to work,...
- 1/22/2018
- TVLine.com
When Howard Silk is turned down for a promotion at the company for which he's worked for 30 years, another surprise awaits him that's far more exciting.
All Howard had to do that he's aware of to become a part of the excitement that awaits him on Counterpart Season 1 Episode 1 was to be born.
As you can imagine, there is going to be a lot more to the story and the new world Howard Silk has just entered, but if the beginning didn't pique your interest, there's nothing I can do for you.
Hopefully, you read my Counterpart series review when this episode aired as a preview on December 16. Maybe some of you are already ahead of the pack and had a chance to watch Counterpart online and enjoyed this second showing as much as I did.
To quote Marilyn Monroe's character The Girl from The Seven Year Itch, here's...
All Howard had to do that he's aware of to become a part of the excitement that awaits him on Counterpart Season 1 Episode 1 was to be born.
As you can imagine, there is going to be a lot more to the story and the new world Howard Silk has just entered, but if the beginning didn't pique your interest, there's nothing I can do for you.
Hopefully, you read my Counterpart series review when this episode aired as a preview on December 16. Maybe some of you are already ahead of the pack and had a chance to watch Counterpart online and enjoyed this second showing as much as I did.
To quote Marilyn Monroe's character The Girl from The Seven Year Itch, here's...
- 1/22/2018
- by Carissa Pavlica
- TVfanatic
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