Salvation is an American suspensedrama television series, that premiered on July 12, 2017. An official trailer was released on May 10, 2017. The series was originally announced as being developed in September 2013, but received its straight-to-series 13-episode order in October 2016. On October 18, 2017, CBS renewed the series for a 13-episode second season, which premiered on June 25, 2018. On November 20, 2018, CBS canceled the series after two seasons.
Premise
The show centers on the discovery of an asteroid that will impact the Earth in just six months, highlighting the attempts to prevent it and its worldwide ramifications. The show looks at how different individuals and groups of people react to the impending doom.
Cast
Main
Santiago Cabrera as Darius Tanz, a billionaire scientist who is the founder and CEO of Tanz Industries and a pivotal player in the United States' defense against the impending asteroid. Darius briefly serves as the Vice President of the United States before becoming president after President Mackenzie's assassination.
Charlie Rowe as Liam Cole, a student at MIT and later Darius' protégé; he is one of the first people outside the government to predict the asteroid's impending collision with Earth. He and Darius work together on an EM drive for a gravity tractor they hope to use to change the asteroid's course.
Jacqueline Byers as Jillian Hayes, a science fiction writer from Boston who becomes involved with Liam and is later chosen by Darius to pick 160 survivors to leave Earth if the asteroid collision cannot be stopped.
Rachel Drance as Zoe Barrows, Grace's daughter
Shazi Raja as Amanda Neel, an investigative reporter who is searching for the truth about Darius' and the government's secrets. After learning about the asteroid, Amanda is assassinated before she can publish the story.
Ashley Thomas as Alonzo Carter, a detective with the D.C. police who is investigating the disappearance of Claire Rayburn
Melia Kreiling as Alycia Vrettou, a brilliant computer scientist, former protégé of Darius Tanz, and member of RE/SYST, leading an international group of captive scientists to come up with a plan to prevent the asteroid collision
Recurring
Dennis Boutsikaris as Malcolm Croft, a professor at MIT and Liam's mentor
Autumn Reeser as Theresa, aka Tess, Darius' first love
André Dae Kim as Dylan Edwards, Harris' son and a member of the hacker organization RE/SYST
Taylor Cole as Fiona Lane, a bartender with whom Harris Edwards has an affair, but who later is revealed to have a connection to Darius' plans to save humanity
Madison Smith as Nate Ryland, a co-worker, a later friend, of Jillian's in the White House
Anjali Jay as Dr. Rosetta Stendahl, an old friend of Darius' and a brilliant scientist. She joins Darius and leads the project to prepare a rail-gun intended to help divert the asteroid.
Luke Arnold as Bass Shepherd, the spiritual leader of COPE
Manoj Sood as Dr. Chandra, an international specialist in Orbital Dynamics and General Purturbation Theory
James Lesure as Trey Thompson, a two-term congressman and former NASA pilot who is later named Vice President under Tanz.
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the series has an approval rating of 47% based on 17 reviews, with an average rating of 5.75/10. The site's critical consensus reads: "Neither remarkably bad nor impressively well-made, Salvation is stereotypical summer television – a low-stakes diversion that may pass the time well enough for undemanding audiences without ever being particularly memorable along the way." On Metacritic, the series has a score of 48 out of 100, based on 18 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".
