Jon Takaki

Continuum starts off as the typical Good guys "law enforcement" against bad guys "terrorists" plot (boring), but as the season progresses, we start to realise it's a lot more than that. It truly goes down the rabbit hole and depicts the future we are now starting to see. Elon Musk's neural link, social credits, surveillance state and technocracy (Corporate Congress). When they introduce the name Somanto in season 2 or 3 in reference to Monsanto, an evil corporation that controls food supply, chemicals and medicine, and is behind false flags operations to create a health crisis and sell its solution, that's when it becomes not only so close to reality but also a foreboding tale that went way too far for mainstream TV's sanitised content. Luckily the show passed the filters for 3 seasons because it flew under the radar as scifi. However there is no doubt it caught the attention of these corporate sponsors and had to be shut down with a shortened season 4 to conclude the series. What's amazing is the cast and screenwriter (Simon Barry) have never discussed the obvious references to current companies and practices. There's a high likelihood the network was threatened with a lawsuit and that they had to sign a non-disclosure agreement never to discuss any of the realities raised in Continuum. It's amazing in itself it was aired considering the current sanitised and fully censored and controlled media/entertainment environment. Simon Barry got his message through somehow, but only because he introduced the plot twist progressively. Oh and Rachel Nichols does cry and smile as the series progress. The cast is great and reveal many underrated Canadian actors we don't normally hear about much outside Canada.