Paradox

Paradox

2009
Paradox
Paradox

Paradox

6.9 | TV-14 | en | Drama

Mysterious images that show incidents 18 hours before they happen are transmitted from space. As a space scientist attempts to explain their source, detectives race against time to change the future.

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Seasons & Episodes

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EP5  Episode Five
Dec. 22,2009
Episode Five

Rebecca always suspected she was helping to cause the events they were supposed to stop. Now she is convinced of this and they receive images more intimate than anything they have previously dealt with. Every image points to a member of the team in some way. One shows a photo of some teenagers shot dead - and Rebecca's hand is holding the gun. Will she have the power to change the destiny that matters most, her own?

EP4  Episode Four
Dec. 15,2009
Episode Four

The team receive double the amount of images in what appears to be their most unfathomable mystery so far. The images seem to be predicting a robbery, a fire and multiple deaths, but how can they trace so many clues in so little time? One of the images last time was random; are some of these the same? How do they know which images relate to the event they are supposed to stop and which ones they can trust?

EP3  Episode Three
Dec. 08,2009
Episode Three

A serial rapist is due to violently attack and murder in a few hours, and Rebecca is determined not to let this happen. But Rebecca is beginning to feel conflicted about their new role; for the first time, she begins to question the responsibility involved in seeing the future, and worries she might even be helping to cause the incidents they are supposed to stop.

EP2  Episode Two
Dec. 01,2009
Episode Two

After her previous failure, Rebecca is determined not to make the same mistakes again. This time, she is desperate to change the future and save a boy's life. But with minutes to spare, Rebecca learns of a second death scheduled to take place at the zero hour - DS Ben Holt's. Not knowing how or when he will die, Rebecca's quest to change the future becomes even more frantic.

EP1  Episode One
Nov. 24,2009
Episode One

Dr Christian King, a world-renowned astrophysicist, claims to have received a series of images from space. The images show fragments of an event, an explosion in which many are killed. Shockingly, Dr King claims the disaster is yet to happen. It will take place in 18 hours time. Is this an elaborate warning of a terrorist attack, or could it be something else? Uncertain, DI Rebecca Flint and her team investigate Dr King and the images. But as the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle come together, it becomes clear that this is a chain of events which no person could possibly predict or plan. With time running out a tragedy drawing closer DI Flint begins to contemplate the impossible - that the images might not be a coded warning or an elaborate threat, but a genuine glimpse of the future.

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6.9 | TV-14 | en | Drama , Sci-Fi | More Info
Released: 2009-11-24 | Released Producted By: , Country: United Kingdom Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00p70x4
Synopsis

Mysterious images that show incidents 18 hours before they happen are transmitted from space. As a space scientist attempts to explain their source, detectives race against time to change the future.

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Tamzin Outhwaite , Emun Elliott , Mark Bonnar

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Reviews

Prismark10 Paradox only lasted for one series and despite a thrilling final 10 minutes the whole series and its character never gelled.Shown in 2009 and filmed in and around Manchester, this science fiction thriller starred Tamzin Outhwaite as Detective Inspector Flint who headed a police unit that investigate images being broadcast to a astrophysicist Dr Christian King's (Emun Elliott) laboratory, which appear to show catastrophic events 18 hours from the future and they need to figure out what it is and how to stop it before time runs out.Despite the exciting climax to the episodes the first 50 minutes of the drama were insipid and dull. You actually wonder if the producers actually look at the construction of an episode. Not just the script but the whole tone, pacing and how it looks with exciting characters that the audience can identify with.The episodes looked as drab as the Manchester skyline but that did not stop Life on Mars being a hit series with its sci-fi twist and of course Doctor Who since its relaunch showed the British science fiction can be hip, edgy, exciting and reach various demographics.Somewhere in the concept was a good series trying to get off the ground. A missed opportunity.
moon-stargirl The series was brilliant, the characters went on a real journey and the actors portraying them performed the journey wonderfully from the doctor who was a loner to the doctor who really wanted to get involved, the Christian officer who ended up killing in the name of justice, the show had everything to make it a decent set of series so why has it not been renewed. This is especially annoying as we were left on a cliff hanger only to realise the hanger was going to break and we were never going to find out if the cliff was a good one. BBC please renew this series it was fantastic, it needed fine tuning but given the chance it would be a epic.
John Fairhurst (johnFair) Although the first episode is not particularly engaging (not a good sign) I persevered and from the second story on they have definitely got better and better.The thing that makes this series most interesting to me isn't the science fictiony bits - not that there's really that much involved in this story. The main influence of science fiction on the plot is mainly on the delivery of the plot line pictures but the suspense in the story comes down to good old character interaction and the way that that the three police officers interact with each other and the scientist running the satellite that appears to be taking the photographs that are cuing the police into the incidents they are investigating.Each of the characters has a particular view on what these pictures represent, from the DS's continuing scepticism of the photographs reality to the scientist's belief that the pictures are showing the future but he has issues with his bosses in the shadowy section of the MoD that is contracting the work he's doing.It's been good in the way that the Beeb haven't shied away from letting people die - this power has not given the cops god-like abilities to change the future, and there have been moral dilemmas as to who can be saved.All-in-all an interesting set of story lines.
Mark Jennings If you are used to the standard police drama series where innovation rarely stretches your imagination or that of the characters beyond taking them to yet another obscure region of the UK or US then this will refresh your parts that other police shows cannot reach! This is less of a 'whodunnit' and more of 'whydidit?'. This series takes a very familiar genre and turns it on its head in a way that is refreshingly new. In the true style of Brit police shows this is dark and tortured, this is not a glossy American show with more style than substance. The actors are excellent and the 'will they, won't they?' is very well done. A 'must watch'!