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Originally Posted by Tribal Warfare
Starz' Counterpart with JK Simmons is badass BTW
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Quite good, but you have to catch it streaming. It's between seasons at the moment.
For those unfamiliar, it's a mix of sci-fi and cold war politics.
Something in the past [mid60s, IIRC] caused a space-time rift with two worlds, nearly identical. Think Fringe.
One side fared much worse than the other in the rift, in some ways. In other ways, the hardship they went through spurred them to greater technological innovation.
There's a single 'portal' between worlds that is a heavily guarded secret where high-level diplomacy occurs by the echelons of each respective government. After strict protocols, some people go back and forth between worlds for negotiations and other 'important' matters.
Everyone has [or had] a doppelganger, but most people [particularly on the less affect side] are oblivious to the fact that this even occurred.
The story picks up in the midst of an attempt at a labyrinthine coup to cross worlds by force from the disadvantaged side by activists to wreak havoc in retaliation for the events the disadvantaged side blames them for.
The main character is a relative innocent and oblivious, meek and mild man on one side, whose doppelganger is a high ranking operative thoroughly enmeshed in the intrigue between worlds from his side. And the narrative is about the growing terrorist plot and getting the less knowledgeable doppleganger up to speed on the nature of the situation so both 'iterations' can work to figure out what's going on.
I think that is satisfactory without giving too much crucial information away.