Lauren Lee Smith, Rachael Crawford (10/14 Ascension)
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{TB Talks TV} ASCENSION - TRAILER (Brad Carter, Lauren Lee Smith, Amanda Thomson)
October 4, 2014
ASCENSION (SyFy) A young woman’s murder causes the subjects of a century-long mission to populate a new world to question the true nature of the project as they approach the point of no return.
DIRECTOR: Mairzee Almas, Nick Copus
WRITER: Philip Levens
STARRING: Brad Carter, Amanda Thomson, Aliyah O’Brien, Al Sapienza, Rachael Crawford, Ellie O’Brien, Lauren Lee Smith, Cynthia Preston, Simon Anthony, Adam Bernett “Ascension” premieres Mon., November 24, at 9pm on SyFy.
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Samantha Krueger | Lauren Lee Smith
Role: CLASSIFIED If life were a lesson, Krueger would learn the hard way. While on a quest to unearth the truth about Ascension, this tough as nails war veteran turned detective inadvertently reveals a few of her own.
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Ascension Season 1
Ascension - a new project by Philip Levens, which returns the SyFy channel to its origins. As we know, the science fiction allowed SyFy channel to become popular, but unfortunately, recent years moved away from this format and the last episode in this genre was the Stargate Universe. The creators promise that Ascension will be a mixture of such series as Downton Abbey and Battlestar "Galactica". The series is scheduled to premiere on December 15, 2014.
In 1963 the government of the United States of America organized a secret space expedition. Hundreds of men, women and children were sent to the age-old journey aboard the star cruiser "Ascension" for the settlement of the new world. It's been almost 50 years of travel and as it approaches the point of no return is a mysterious murder of a young girl. Among the population of the vessel occurs excitement and they begin to think about the true purpose of his mission.
•Genres: Sci-Fi
•Cast: Al Sapienza, Brad Carter, Jessica Sipos, Michelle Mylett, Ellie O'Brien, Amanda Thomson, Aliyah O'Brien, Rachael Crawford, Lauren Lee Smith, Cynthia Preston
•Country: USA | Canada
•Language: English
•Release Date: November 2014 (USA)
•Runtime: 60 min
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Excerpt from io9 12/18/14: Lauren Lee Smith
Ascension Ends With A Final Supreme Moment Of WTF
Cheryl Eddy 12/18/14 3:29pm
Chief puppetmaster Harris Enzmann (Gil Bellows) has been carrying on his father's work, overseeing Ascension's "flight" and becoming creepily obsessed with overseeing its residents. He's none too pleased when his boss forces him to accommodate consultant Samantha Krueger (Lauren Lee Smith), brought in to help solve Ascension's first murder. Samantha - a taco-loving lesbian (yes, they went there) who immediately suspects Harris' pet project is motivated by a sinister purpose - soon becomes audience surrogate, playing Nancy Drew and bonding, as much as one can, with Stokes (Brad Carter), the falsely accused murderer who plunged from Ascension to Earth at the end of chapter one. She also befriends a conspiracy-theory blogger who has intel on exactly what kind of X-files Samantha is up against; it plays out like a spy thriller as she realizes her detective skills will be tested by circumstances more complex than solving a single murder.
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Excerpt from Technology Tell 12/19/14: Lauren Lee Smith
TV review: Ascension is not the show you think it is
by Chris Meadows on December 19, 2014 at 9:59 am
These supervisors watch every moment of the crew’s lives, and adapt any new technologies they develop for use in the outside world. Unfortunately, their control begins to unravel with the murder, and they are saddled with investigator Samantha Krueger (Lauren Lee Smith), who may have an agenda of her own.
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Excerpt from Cinemablend 11/19/14: Lauren Lee Smith
Ascension Night Two Watch: Truths Are Dropping Like Bombs
By Mike Reyes
Naturally, Harris is extremely protective of his “fifedom.” So much so that he tries to manipulate Samantha Krueger (Lauren Lee Smith,) the new investigator that's been assigned by the higher ups.
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Excerpt from After Ellen 12/19/14: Lauren Lee Smith
“Ascension” is a twisty and compelling sci-fi mystery with a familiar actress playing gay
By Dana Piccoli on December 19, 2014
The government is behind the Ascension, and Harris’s boss Katherine Warren (Wendy Crewson) puts the smack down after Lorelai’s death. She brings on Detective Samantha Krueger (Lauren Lee Smith) to investigate the murder, and keep an eye on Harris. Samantha is a lesbian, something that the Ascension folks know nothing about, since homosexuality was left out by design. (Anyone who isn’t procreating, isn’t needed on the Ascension. Sorry space lesbians.) When she meets Stokes-who, incidentally, tries to kill her at first-she’s horrified by “social experiment” that he and the other crew members are being put through. She gets in touch with Eva Marceau (Aliyah O’Brien), a conspiracy theorist, and tries to take the whole thing down from the inside. Unfortunately, you don’t put fifty years into an universe changing experiment and not cover your ass. After Samantha and Stokes escape the compound, and she survives a bullet wound, Samantha is stopped in her tracks by the only person she thought she could trust.
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Excerpt from Deadshirt 12/23/14: Lauren Lee Smith
We Need More of SyFy’s Ascension [Review]
Deadshirt Staff
Samantha Krueger (Lauren Lee Smith), an outside investigator brought in to study and report back on the anomalies within Ascension (such as murder) to Enzmann’s boss, is a lesbian who eventually asks about gay people on Ascension. Enzmann replies that none were allowed on, smugly explaining that only heterosexuals were allowed because reproduction had to be a core value on the ship.
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But that jump so early is necessary and I became as invested in the lives of the people on Earth, especially John Stokes (Brad Carter) and Samantha Krueger, as I was in the characters aboard the Ascension.
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Excerpt from IGN 12/23/14: Lauren Lee Smith
Ascension: Miniseries Review: Grounded space opera.
Max Nicholson → December 23, 2014
Alas, the show's most interesting undercover character, Samantha Krueger (Lauren Lee Smith), was unceremoniously killed off in the third episode, leaving her thought-to-be-spacebound cohort John Stokes (Brad Carter) to fend for himself -- which, granted, could be a cool storyline down the line.
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