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Impending doom: Multiple threats plague season 2 of ‘Salvation’
By K.A. Taylor
TV Media
Science fiction is increasingly becom- ingsciencefact.Thedreamsof golden era writers and directors, while perhaps a bit exaggerated, are more prevalent now than ever before. Space exploration is advancing, with multiple groups and organizations vowing to es-
tablish a new home on Mars.This might explain why so many of us are capti- vated by intergalactic what-ifs, and why many summer TV viewers are tuning in tothesci-fidrama“Salvation,”nowin its second season, with a new episode airing Monday, July 16, on CBS.
“Salvation” takes place in present-day America, using modern technology and a dash of fictional
liberty to set the stage. Liam Cole (Charlie Row, “Red Band Society”)
is a highly intellectual MIT graduate student whose research has been devotedtomappingtheunknown parts of space. What Liam didn’t anticipate, however, was that his pro- gram would uncover a serious, im- pending threat to the entire planet: an asteroid set to collide with Earth in 186 days. Anxious to get the data to the government, Liam reaches out to his professor, but after the profes- sor goes missing, he turns to his one other option: scientific genius Darius Tanz (Santiago Cabrera, “Big Little Lies”), a recent speaker at MIT who’s still — thankfully — in town.
Armed with this new, time-sen- sitive information, Darius and Liam head to the Pentagon and deliver the news to the Department of Defense’s deputy secretary, Harris Edwards (Ian Anthony Dale, “Hawaii Five-0”). Har- ris and DOD public affairs press sec- retary Grace Barrows (Jennifer Finni- gan, “Tyrant”) have no choice but to let these two skilled scientists into
a covert operation called Sampson, revealing that the government was already well aware of the threat but had chosen to keep it hidden in order to prevent mass pandemonium.
The thrilling conclusion of season 1 saw the president reinstated, TESS’s source code given up to RE/SYST
and the group divided, awaiting the impeding likely demise of the East Coast. Harris and Grace, along with the rest of the selected crew, are all
stowed away within a hangar, ready to board the Ark if necessary, while Darius and Liam work from a secure location to try to determine another waytopreventEarth’sdestruction.
With the second season now underway, it’s clear to see that the danger is compounding. RE/SYST is threatening nuclear action, the aster- oid’s imminent collision continues to present a dire outlook for humanity, and neither situation can be resolved without global co-operation. Mean- while, Harris and Grace are strug- gling to quell potential chaos within the hangar as the newly informed citizens learn to accept their fate.
In a recent interview with KCAL9 CBS Los Angeles, Finnigan touched on the growing tension of a disaster- bent narrative. The actress notes that, while “the show is mostly about this impeding asteroid — the sort of scaring, impending doom of that,” people are “still living [their lives],” as the truth makes it difficult for peo- ple to accept, which leads them to set out a course of action that reveals what’s truly important to them. Now that “the public knows” and “the secret is out ... people go bananas.” An event such as this will no doubt “bring out the best” or to “bring out the worst [in us],” but ultimately, Finnigan believes that the most re- alistic depiction — something
that the series strives to
exhibit — is where the
best and worst in us
collide.
A large part of the show’s success is
thanks to the popular disaster genre. Most prominent in film, the genre was born in 1901 with a silent film called “Fire!,” though “Salva- tion” is likely drawing more so from the golden
era of disaster
Santiago Cabrera in “Salvation”
cinema, circa the 1970s. Films such as “Airport” (1970), “Earthquake” (1974) and “Meteor” (1979) gave audiences a thirst for the point at whichsciencefictionanddramatic thrillers meet. In the late 1990s, a new wave of disaster films arrived that, like “Salvation,” saw our big- gest threat coming from the stars. “Independence Day” (1996), “Deep Impact”(1998)and“Armaged- don” (1998) are just three of the space-based dramatic thrillers that signified this once niche subcategory of the genre growing increasingly prominent.
Not constricted by the two-to- three-hour runtime of its big-screen forerunners, “Salvation” provides deeper insight into the human reac- tions and cost of catastrophic events, rather than placing emphasis on fantastic explosions, tidal waves and meteor collisions. Despite the im- minence of the threat, audiences find themselves more compelled by the characters’ narratives than a desire to witness destruction, which is a re- freshing take on a genre increasingly oversaturated with CGI and mass destruction.
As season 2 of “Salvation” pro- gresses, the price of loyalty will increase in value. As the asteroid continues its journey toward Earth, Harris, Grace, Liam and Darius will
do all they can to try and maintain a sense of calm while uncov-
ering a means by which disaster might ultimately be
prevented. If all else fails, there is, of course, the Ark, but that will mean biding a tearful adieu to two be- loved characters. Find out
the fates of our daring he- roes and the planet itself, as “Salvation” continues with a
new episode airing Mon- day, July 16, on
CBS.
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