Continuum: Season Two

The second season of this Canadian sci-fi crime drama—airing stateside on Syfy—begins by complicating its storyline of time traveling guerilla revolutionaries, as it adds new characters and conspiracies. Rachel Nichols stars as future cop Kiera Cameron—transported back from 2077 to 2012 along with a band of revolutionaries—who finds it more difficult to keep her true identity hidden from her Vancouver PD partner Carlos Fonnegra (Victor Webster) after the Liber8 group splits into two factions, a rogue member creates a financial and technological empire, and a shady millionaire with his own agenda tries to lure young genius Alec Sadler (Erik Knudsen)—a nice boy who will create the corporate oligarchy that rules the future—into working for him. This is a season of shady dealings and double agents, with characters communicating with themselves across time, and alliances changing as more players become involved in the drama. The low-budget mix of time-travel sci-fi and urban cop show is reasonably clever and presented with complicated motivations and shifting loyalties. Like similar shows, Continuum is not easy to join midway through—especially when the competing conspiracies get tangled together—making this pretty much for fans only. Presenting all 13 episodes from the 2013 sophomore season, extras include episode commentaries and behind-the-scenes featurettes. Optional. (S. Axmaker)