'Counterpart': Justin Marks tackles something that has captivated scientists, and sold comic books for ages, the multiverse
If there is any radical fact about our world that creator Justin Marks' STARZ TV show 'Counterpart' has brought up, is the truth that everything that exists around us, and the way we co-exist along with them is the result of the thousand choices that we have made and the millions that we have discarded. However, what we have discarded in our time and our reality has been picked up and molded to shape the reality of an alternate universe, and this is exactly where the J.K. Simmons starring show holds its ground.
Like some of the most renowned works of science fiction such as the Marvel Comics Multiverse (which includes the 'Age of Apocalypse', 'Femizonia'), the DC Comics Multiverse (Justice League is literally the league of villains in Earth-Two), 'Star Trek', 'The Butterfly Effect', and 'The Cloverfield Paradox', 'Counterpart' set out to show its audience two different versions of the same individual- one a docile gentleman, the other a crafty spy- and when the two meet it is established that one is the result of the other's rejected options. Howard Silk Prime is a spy because of a decision his alternate wife, Emily Silk Alpha made, and that had its own consequences, as Emily Silk Prime is no more married to Howard Silk Prime.
