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In The Crossing, Sundance Jury Prize winner Steve Zahn (Happy/Texas, Modern Family) plays Jude Ellis, sheriff of a small fishing town on the Oregon coast in modern-day America. His plans for a quiet life are upended when 47 refugees from a war-torn country wash up on his beach seeking asylum. The country they’re from is America… and the war they’re fleeing is 180 years in the future.
After seeing the first episode, renowned author Stephen King tweeted:
With The Crossing now first and only on Showmax in South Africa, here are five reasons everyone’s going to be talking about this show.
It’s from ABC, the network who brought you ‘Lost’
Look, we’re well aware that you probably don’t love Lost as much now as you did at the end of season one. That ending wasn’t for everyone. But The Crossing will remind you of the good parts of being, well, lost, in early Lost. As lead actress Natalie Martinez says, “I love shows like this, where you read and you have no idea what’s happening, so you get to create your own theories and then something happens and you have no idea what’s going on and then you get a cliff-hanger and you have to keep watching. It’s definitely one of those scripts that grabbed my attention and made me want to figure the puzzle out.”
It co-stars Natalie Martinez
Half a million people watched Natalie Martinez getting out of car in Death Race on YouTube. If you’re not that kind of fan, you may still recognise her from her roles as deputy sheriff Linda Esquivel in Under the Dome; detective Jamie Lovato in CSI:NY, and MMA fighter Alicia Mendez in Kingdom, among others. But it’s her part in The Crossing as Reece, a refugee looking for her daughter, that’s propelled her into the IMDB Top 500 ranks.
It’s created by two writers from Revenge and Criminals Minds
Co-creators Jay Beattie and Dan Dworkin have written for some of the most entertaining shows on TV, from the Golden Globe nominated Revenge to the three-time Emmy nominee Criminal Minds to the People’s Choice nominated The Event.
The first episode is directed by four-time Emmy nominee Rob Bowman (The X-Files)
Rob Bowman has four Emmy nominations to his name for The X-Files, as well as stints directing the Emmy-nominated Castle and the Emmy-winning Star Trek: The Next Generation, among other shows. Other directors on The Crossing include Ken Girotti (Vikings, Orphan Black); Jeffrey Hunt (Vampire Diaries, The Originals); David van Ancken (Californication, The Following), Tara Nicole Weyr (Lucifer, Desperate Housewives), and Alex Zakrzewski (Bosch, Oz).
Audiences love it
At the time of writing, The Crossing has a 81% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes and is currently one of IMDB’s ‘Most Popular TV Shows.’
As The Gazette wrote, The Crossing is “a drama wrapped in mystery. At every turn, there's a new secret to unravel… Reminiscent of Lost and Wayward Pines, signalling great potential for the new series.”
The first six episodes are now available to binge on Showmax, with the rest of the season coming in June and the final two episodes express from the US. Watch it now »
This content is sponsored by Showmax and co-created with Brandstudio24 for Channel24.
