Counterpart: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Counterpart is about a mysterious world hidden beneath the surface of our everyday existence. Howard Silk is 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 if our lives could have been different?"

Series details

• Title: Counterpart
• Format: Scripted
• Language: English
• Genres: Drama, Science-Fiction, Thriller
• Premiere date: 2017-12-10
• Final broadcast date listed: 2019-02-17
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: STARZ
• Network country: United States
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVmaze community rating: 8.1/10
• TVMaze ID: 6456
• IMDb ID: tt4643084
• TVDB ID: 337302

Cast and credited roles

• J.K. Simmons — Howard Silk
• Olivia Williams — Emily Burton Silk
• Harry Lloyd — Peter Quayle
• Nazanin Boniadi — Clare Fancher
• Nicholas Pinnock — Ian Shaw
• Sara Serraiocco — Baldwin
• Ulrich Thomsen — Josef Aldrich
• Betty Gabriel — Naya Temple
• James Cromwell — Yanek Tomes

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2017-12-10; final listed air date 2018-04-01; episode order: 10.
• Season 2: premiered 2018-12-09; final listed air date 2019-02-17; episode order: 10.

Source and licence

Adapted from Counterpart on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.