TV SERIES · 2019– · USA
Emergence
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- #001
Emergence is set in Long Island, New York; the town is Southold on Long Island's Peconic Bay, but the series was actually filmed in New Jersey. The pilot's beach scenes were shot at Island Beach State Park.
- #002
This marks the second time Allison Tolman has played a lead character who is a police officer. She first did so as Molly Solverson in the first season of Fargo.
- #003
The lighthouse shown is the Barnegat Lighthouse, located at Barnegat Light on Long Beach Island in New Jersey.
- #004
Enver Gjokaj, who plays Agent Brooks, also appeared in Dollhouse (2009), a series in which people are wiped and imprinted with new personalities. Like the AIs in this series, the Actives were driven by programming, and Echo taught them to go beyond it, just as Piper does for Benny.
- #005
Characters close to Piper wear plenty of blue (the color that represents Piper) and green (Piper's favorite color).
- #006
Emergence (2019) is the fifth series whose pilot centers on mysterious events aboard a passenger plane (at least in the twenty-first century). The other shows include Lost (2004), Fringe (2008), The Strain (2014) and Manifest (2018). The first two were produced by J. J. Abrams, and The Strain was produced by Lost collaborator Carlton Cuse. Lost was filmed in Hawaii; Fringe's pilot was filmed in Toronto but set in Boston, the rest of the season was filmed in New York, and later seasons were filmed in Vancouver; The Strain was set in New York but most of its filming took place in Toronto; Manifest was set and filmed in New York. Emergence was filmed in the Greater New York area. Later in the season Terry O'Quinn joins the cast; he had previously been part of Lost (2004).
- #007
In episode 2, the secretary at the police station mentions that a citizen is filing a report about the theft of their garden gnomes. In Stranger Things, the series Emergence has been compared to, a Hawkins resident filed a report at Hopper's office saying his gnomes had repeatedly been stolen by pranksters.
- #008
When Piper first meets Kindred (actually Emily) in the facility, there is a painting that apparently uses a particular shade of blue for the first time, and Piper is compared to it. The AI characters we see, such as Justin, Charlie, Sam and Noah, all wear this shade of blue on their shirts. It is also the color of the shirt Benny wears most often. Piper wears this color several times, and Helen once.
- #009
Every episode title except the pilot is a sentence or word spoken in the episode and is extremely significant to the episode's events.
- #010
This is not the first time Owain Yeoman has played an artificial intelligence; in the first episode of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles he played the T-888 Cromartie, who tries to kill John Reese.
- #011
Alexa Swinton (Piper) appeared as a guest actor in Manifest, which likewise begins with a mysterious event involving a plane.
- #012
It was canceled after the first season.
- #013
Enver Gjokaj (Agent Brooks) and Owain Yeoman (Benny) both appeared in Extant, which centers on a young artificial intelligence. Gjokaj appeared in 6 episodes and Yeoman in 3.
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