The Crossing
Created by Jay Beattie, Dan Dworkin
On ABC
A high-concept sci-fi thriller that uses time-displaced refugees as an allegory for contemporary immigration anxiety, sustained by conspiracy and paranoia across a single, unresolved season.
Refugees from a war-torn country start showing up to seek asylum in an American town. Only the country these people are from is America and the war they are fleeing is 250 years in the future. The local sheriff with a past, a federal agent and a mother in search of her missing refugee daughter drive this allegory with a surprising conspiracy at the center.
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Like The Crossing
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Like The Crossing, But Less Popular
Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.
