The show explores how various characters react after knowing what their futures will be like. It is determined that everyone's visions are snippets from the same time on the same day a few months in the future. Mark is tasked with investigating a worldwide blackout during which every person catches glimpses of his or her future. Joseph Fiennes starred as FBI agent Mark Benford. Flash Forward left its loyal fans wanting more.įlash Forward was a sci-fi soap opera that aired on ABC for one season starting in 2009.

Following these moments, there is another blackout, this time flashing through events spanning multiple years and revealing that Mark will go missing. Others are slightly altered or prevented from happening at all. Some of the events occur exactly as predicted.

The show ends when the characters find themselves really living the moments depicted in their flash forwards. Since Flash Forward only lasted for one season, its finale cliffhanger was never resolved. At first he appears to be the man behind the blackout, but he later learns that he was used to unwittingly set events in motion. Dominic Monaghan is a sprightly troublemaker who remains awake and active while everyone else blacks out. His insights from the future inform his investigation in the present. Mark's flash forward shows him that he will be investigating these events. He is Mark's best friend and coworker, so he has a vested interest in figuring out who caused the blackout. John Cho's Demetri does not see anything at all during the blackout, which he assumes means that he will die soon. She cannot resist the affair because his future is affected as well he is determined to let his flash forward play out because the affair leads to him making a scientific breakthrough. She learns that she will find herself enmeshed in a romantic affair with one of the scientists responsible for triggering the blackout.

Mark's wife Olivia, played by Sonya Walger, is one such person. They are not sure if the things they do to change their unhappy futures will inadvertently cause those bad things to happen. These people are caught in one of the most compelling conundrums that the show examines. Others do not like what they see and decide to change their futures. Some are inspired to make positive life changes after seeing that they are going to be happy after doing so. Flash Forward was a sci-fi soap opera that aired on ABC for one season starting in 2009.

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