2175 – Wild Wild Country (TV Mini Series 2018)

spacetime coordinates: 1968 India  > 1981 – 1985 Antelope, Oregon / Rajneesh

Wild Wild Country is a Netflix documentary series about the controversial Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (Osho), his one-time personal assistant Ma Anand Sheela, and their community of followers in the Rajneeshpuram community located in Wasco County, Oregon, US. (wiki)

(Original Caption) Oregon: Rajneeshpuram. Bhwagwan Shree Rajneesh gestures as he invites his own assassination during news conference 7/20. It was announced that security people had found that one of the reporters had smuggled a gun into the news conference, the first ever held by Bhagwan. He answered questions for two and a half hours.

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2167 – The Guard (2011)

spacetime coordinates: 2000’s Connemara district in the west of Ireland

The Guard is a 2011 Irish buddy cop crime comedy film written and directed by John Michael McDonagh, starring Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle, Mark Strong and Liam Cunningham. (wiki)

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2053 – Unbelievable (TV Mini Series 2019)

timespace coordinates: 2008–2011 Washington and Colorado

Unbelievable is an American true crime television miniseries starring Toni Collette, Merritt Wever, and Kaitlyn Dever. It is about a series of rapes in Washington State and Colorado. The show was co-created by Susannah Grant, Ayelet Waldman, and Michael Chabon. All three co-creators and Sarah Timberman, Carl Beverly, and Katie Couric were executive producers. It was released on September 13, 2019, on Netflix.

The miniseries is based on the 2015 news article “An Unbelievable Story of Rape“, written by T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong, and their 2018 book A False Report based on the same research. The series received critical acclaim. (wiki)

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2050 – Against the Ice (2022)

Against the Ice is a 2022 historical survival film directed by Peter Flinth. Based on the true story recounted in Two Against the Ice by Ejnar Mikkelsen, the film stars Coster-Waldau as Mikkelsen and Joe Cole as Iver Iversen. It was released on Netflix on March 2, 2022. (wiki)   /   imdb

Organizing an expedition to map out the northeast coast of Greenland, to recover the bodies of Mylius-Erichsen, leader of the ill-fated Denmark expedition and the expedition’s cartographer, Niels Peter Høeg Hagen, and their records, Mikkelsen wintered 1909–10 at Shannon Island, East Greenland. His wooden ship, the Alabama, was trapped in the ice of Shannon and, while he was exploring, the rest of the party returned home on a whaler. Remaining with his engineer, Iversen, Mikkelsen succeeded by a series of hazardous sledge journeys in recovering the lost records and in disproving the existence of Peary Channel.

The two explorers returned to Shannon island to find the crew gone, but, they had salvaged timbers and planking and erected a small cottage. Mikkelsen and Iversen then spent two winters at the cottage before they were rescued, in the direst of extremities, by a Norwegian whaler in summer 1912. The so-called Alabama cottage has survived, intact, and was photographed during a visit by Danish Navy inspection ship Ejnar Mikkelsen in September 2010. (wiki)

2017 – The Sinner (TV Series 2017–2021)

The Sinner is an American police procedural anthology television series developed by Derek Simonds for USA Network. It is named after Petra Hammesfahr‘s 1999 novel, which served as the basis for the first season. Bill Pullman starred as a police detective who investigates crimes committed by unlikely culprits and attempts to uncover their motivations. Only Pullman appeared in every season, with the rest of the cast changing for each season’s story.

Originally intended as an eight-part miniseries, The Sinner premiered on August 2, 2017, to critical acclaim and high ratings. The show’s success led to USA Network turning it into an anthology series, airing 32 episodes over four seasons, ending on December 1, 2021. (wiki)

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2009 – Beforeigners (TV Series 2019– )

spacetime coordinates: season 1 takes place in 2019 Oslo, where sudden flashes of light appear in the bay in Bjørvika. People from different time periods—the Stone Age, Viking Age, and the 19th century—suddenly appear in the present. 

Beforeigners is a Norwegian sci-fi buddy cop series created and written by Eilif Skodvin and Anne Bjørnstad and directed by Jens Lien. The main protagonists are Lars (Nicolai Cleve Broch), an Oslo police detective, and Alfhildr (Krista Kosonen), a Viking-era recruit, who investigate the murder of a Stone Ager. (wiki)

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1985 – Cast Away (2000)

spacetime coordinates: 1995 – 1999 Memphis, Tennessee > Uninhabited Island in the South Pacific

Cast Away is a 2000 American survival drama film directed and produced by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks and Helen Hunt. Hanks plays a FedEx troubleshooter stranded on an uninhabited island after his plane crashes in the South Pacific, and the plot focuses on his desperate attempts to survive and return home. (wiki)

Farm house with windmill.

Media executive Lloyd Braun of ABC Studios first suggested the idea of a Cast Away–type television series at a dinner party in 2003. Thom Sherman later pitched the idea for Cast Away – The Series, but never developed the idea. The concept was later developed and pitched with the title Nowhere, which later turned into the ABC show Lost.

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Keep Breathing (TV Mini Series 2022)

spacetime coordinates: 2022 in the middle of the Canadian wilderness

Keep Breathing is a survival drama limited series created by Martin Gero and Brendan Gall for Netflix. (wiki)

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