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Parallel Universe Live-Action Series
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Is it possible to live in the same place at the same time but in a completely different dimension? Oh Yeon-joo is a second-year cardiothoracic resident doctor. Her father, a famous comic book creator, suddenly disappears one day and then Yeon-joo herself is kidnapped by a strange man covered in blood and taken to a different dimension. Kang Chul is a former Olympic gold medalist in shooting and self-made millionaire. How will his world intertwine with Yeon-jooโs other-dimension universe? Is Kang Chul the only person who can help Yeon-joo escape from a parallel universe?
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Created and written by Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij (The East), this Netflix original delves into the inexplicable reappearance of Prairie Johnson (Marling). Having gone missing seven years ago, the previously blind Johnson returns home, now in her late 20s and with her sight restored. While many believe she is miracle, others worry that she could be dangerous.
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Terra Nova (2011)
In 2149, earth is nearly wrecked by pollution. Police detective Jim Shannon is jailed for illegally raising an extra child, Zoe. He's sprung from jail just in time to join his family on the latest 'pilgrimage', through a unique time-space-continuum rip, to Terra Nova, a colony run with modern technology in a dino age forest.
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Stranger Things is set in the fictional rural town of Hawkins, Indiana, during the early 1980s. The nearby Hawkins National Laboratory ostensibly performs scientific research for the United States Department of Energy, but secretly does experiments into the paranormal and supernatural, including those that involve human test subjects. Inadvertently, they have created a portal to an alternate dimension, "the Upside Down". The influence of the Upside Down starts to affect the unknowing residents of Hawkins in calamitous ways.
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Sliders (1995)
Quinn Mallory, while working on an anti-gravity machine, accidentally creates a portal to a parallel universe. Eventually, his friends and an unwilling participant accidentally get stuck traveling among parallel worlds, trying to survive, and learning that sliding can lead to fatal results. Meanwhile, among many changes in their group, they try to rescue the multiverse from the Kromagg Dynasty.
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This fantasy action-adventure series follows four teenage boys who get lost in the forest and discover, when they return home, that they are in an alternate world identical to theirs except for one startling difference - they were never born.
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Eduard, a husband and father who loses his family in a tragic accident, travels to parallel universes to seek a better fate for his beloved wife.
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The Doctor, a Time Lord/Lady from the race whose home planet is Gallifrey, travels through time and space in their ship the TARDIS (an acronym for Time and Relative Dimension In Space) with numerous companions. From time to time, the Doctor regenerates into a new form.
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Counterpart (2017)
After discovering that the spy agency he works for is hiding a gateway to a parallel dimension, a low-level UN bureaucrat in Berlin is thrust into a shadow world of intrigue and danger and must determine if he can trust his near-identical counterpart in the other world.
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Charlie Jade is a rogue private detective in a world dominated by greedy multinational corporations. While on an investigation, Charlie explores a secret desert facility. A massive explosion propels him from his own universe (alphaverse) to a strange parallel universe (betaverse). Soon, Charlie is drawn into a conflict that involves these two universes and one other pacifist universe (gammaverse) with unsuspected terror at its heart.
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Awake (2012)
Drama series about a detective who finds he is leading an arduous double life that defies reality. Following a tragic car accident, detective Michael Britten finds himself awake in two separate realities: one where his teen son, Rex, died in the crash and his wife, Hannah, survived and another where Hannah has perished, leaving Michael and Rex to pick up the pieces. In order to keep both of his loved ones alive, Michael begins living in two dueling realities, churning up confusion. In one reality, Michael and his wife debate having another child, while in the other, his son Rex is turning to his tennis coach, Tara, to fill the void from the loss of his mother. Trying to regain some normalcy, Michael returns to solving crimes in both worlds with the help of two different partners, Detective Isaiah "Bird" Freeman and Detective Efrem Vega.
Parallel worlds is a general theme found in works of Science Fiction and Fantasy. The idea of parallels worlds and dimensions lying next to our own and occasionally connecting is among the oldest and earliest defined themes in speculative fiction, and it has therefore been present in cinema since its early beginnings, with early film adapations of L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz being made as early as the first quarter of the 20th century, with both The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910) and the more well-known The Wizard of Oz (1925). The influence of C. S. Lewis' successful The Chronicles of Narnia series helped to popularize the theme in fantasy literature and cinema.
Various, smaller themes have emerged from the more general idea of parallel worlds, with many of them making it to cinema as well. These include the common perception of a parallel world as a hidden, but still accesible dimension that exists alongside our usual world, with significant or minor differences to the normal world. Such differences may be expressed in the existence of magic or magical creatures, futuristic technologies or just a different chain of events that led to an alternate history. Other works have instead focused on the far less common idea of a multiverse, the hypothesized existence of an infinite number of universes existing next to each other.
Various, smaller themes have emerged from the more general idea of parallel worlds, with many of them making it to cinema as well. These include the common perception of a parallel world as a hidden, but still accesible dimension that exists alongside our usual world, with significant or minor differences to the normal world. Such differences may be expressed in the existence of magic or magical creatures, futuristic technologies or just a different chain of events that led to an alternate history. Other works have instead focused on the far less common idea of a multiverse, the hypothesized existence of an infinite number of universes existing next to each other.
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