Counterpart

If you love J.K. Simmons (and we do), then you’ll be doubly happy with this futuristic thriller, created by Justin Marks. Once again, we’re in Berlin, but this time it’s present day (we think?), and the city is divided not by a wall but by a parallel world created when an experiment went wrong 30 years ago. The result: Everyone on one side has a genetically identical counterpart on the other (thus two Simmonses)— though only a few people on either side are aware that a parallel world exists. It’s confusing! But it’s also clever, atmospheric and suspenseful, with notable nods to spymaster John le Carré.