# Parallels (2022)

> Four teenagers are thrown into parallel dimensions by a mysterious event that turns their lives upside down.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/98858

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 6
- Episode runtime: 38 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: science fiction, mystery, drama
- Created by: Quoc Dang Tran
- Network: Disney+
- Cast: Timoté Rigault, Thomas Chomel, Omar Mebrouk, Jules Houplain, Jade Pedri, Naidra Ayadi, Guillaume Labbé, Maxime Bergeron
- TMDB rating: 7.0/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8590080/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: moderate
- Complexity: layered
- Violence: mild
- Tone: eerie, melancholic, atmospheric, tense, wistful

## What critics say

Critics find the French parallel-dimension teen mystery mixed-to-positive, with its high-concept premise and young cast earning a modest but favorable response.

## Synopsis

Parallels (2022) is a French science fiction mystery series created by Quoc Dang Tran for Disney+. Its story follows four teenagers whose ordinary lives are upended when a mysterious event hurls them into parallel dimensions, where they confront alternate versions of themselves and the people they might have become. Principal figures include Bilal Belkebirs, played as a fourteen-year-old by Timoté Rigault and as a thirty-year-old by Omar Mebrouk, alongside Thomas Chomel as Sam Deslandes and Jules Houplain as Victor Deslandes. The engine of the show is the search for a way back and the unraveling of what the event means, with each episode layering a new clue onto a growing puzzle of doubled lives and shifting realities. Told across a single season of six episodes of roughly thirty-eight minutes each, it is a compact, self-contained limited series rather than a sprawling saga. Its look is cool and atmospheric, with a French teen drama sensibility grounding the speculative premise in friendship, family ties and fear of the unknown. Tone and theme blend youthful longing with eerie dread, the same register that fans of Dark and Stranger Things will find familiar, and the mystery leans on identity and loss rather than spectacle. Set in contemporary France, it offers an accessible entry point for viewers who want a moody, character-driven puzzle box.

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