Counterpart Season 1

## Counterpart Season One

***Counterpart* Season 1** is the first season of the Starz Original Series created by Justin Marks.

The first season of the SciFi/Drama introduces Howard Silk, a lowly cog in the bureaucratic machine of the Office of Interchange in Berlin. Howard discovers that the agency is really overseeing The Crossing, a portal into a parallel dimension and becomes embroiled in a conspiracy that involves another, very different, version of himself.

## Development

Counterpart Creator Justin Marks (*The Jungle Book*) initially wrote his cross-dimensional tale as a spec feature. It landed at MRC (Media Rights Capital) in 2013 and they suggested that Marks develop it into a series. Current Season 2 writer Maegan Houang was a script reader at MRC at the time and says she was one of the first to read it.

Marks tapped longtime friend and producer Jordan Horowitz (*La La Land*) to collaborate and further developed the concept.

Starz picked up the show in spring 2015 and veteran TV producer Amy Berg (*Eureka*, *Person of Interest*) was brought in to help first-time showrunner Marks.[1] with production starting in winter 2016[2].

Marks along with executive producers Berg and Horowitz, formed a writers' room with Gary Gilbert, Erin Levy, and others long before production began. Berg reports it was the first time in her long career that she's had a full season of scripts in hand before cameras rolled.

Marks described the first season as a 10-hour movie with ten chapters. The first episode is directed by Morten Tyldum (*The Imitation Game*). Jennifer Getzinger (*Mad Men*, *Outlander*) directed three episodes as did Stephen Williams (*Ray Donovan*, *Westworld*)

## Episodes

**Episode 1****Episode 2****Episode 3****Episode 4****Episode 5****Episode 6****Episode 7****Episode 8****Episode 9****Episode 10**
## Cast

* J. K. Simmons as Howard Silk
* Olivia Williams as Emily Burton Silk
* Harry Lloyd as Peter Quayle
* Nazanin Boniadi as Clare
* Sara Serraiocco as Baldwin
* Ulrich Thomsen as Aldrich
* Nicholas Pinnock as Ian Shaw
* Bernhard Forcher as Andrei
* Stephen Rea as Alexander Pope
* Kenneth Choi as Bob Dwyer
* Nolan Gerard Funk as Oskar Wolfe
* Lotte Verbeek as Helen Moller
* Christiane Paul as Mira
* Guy Burnet as Ambassador Claude Lambert
* Ingo Rademacher as Friedrich
* Jacqueline Antaramian as Ava Fancher
* Jacqueline Bisset as Charlotte Burton
* Liv Lisa Fries as Greta
* Marco Khan as Raash
* Mido Hamada as Cyrus
* Rahul Parikh as Max
* Sarah Bolger as Anna
* Stefan Kapicic as Lieber
* Adeel Akhtar as Kasper

## Production

* Justin Marks - Created by/Writer/EP
* Jordan Horowitz - Writer/EP
* Amy Berg - Writer/EP
* Bard Dorros - EP
* Gary Gilbert - Writer/Producer
* Morten Tyldum - Director/EP
* Jennifer Getzinger - Director
* Stephen Williams - Director
* Maegan Houang - Writer
* Erin Levy - Writer

## Reception

The fist season was recieved well by critics, leading to a 100% on Rotten Tomatoes and a score of 76 out of 100 on Metacritic.

The season also recived a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Main Title Design at the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards, which it also won.

## Media

### Videos

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