Endlings Season 1
Other Title: Endlings
Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Episodes: 12
Country: United States
Director: –
Writer: J. J. Johnson, Christin Simms, Mark De Angelis, Bonnie Fairweather, Caitlin D. Fryers, Thomas Conway
Network: CBC Television, Universal Kids
Release Date: January 5, 2020
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Cast:
- Kamaia Fairburn as Julia
- Edison Grant as Johnny
- Michela Luci as Tabby
- Cale Thomas Ferrin as Finn
- Neil Crone as Mr. Leopold
- Oyin Oladejo as Tuko’s caretaker
- Lisa Ryder as Hewes
Synopsis:
Set in a near future, Endlings centers around four foster children who discover they’re not alone following the disappearance of the last elephant on Earth.
The season begins 20 years in the future when an alien being abducts the last elephant on Earth, Tuko, from the African wildlife refuge where she’s lived since she was orphaned as a baby. But before the Alien can leave Earth’s atmosphere, its ship malfunctions and crash lands on a farm in North America. The crash happens just as Mr. Leopold, the foster parent who owns the farm, is about to take in Julia, a new foster kid, to join his other wards: Johnny, Tabby and Finn.
Almost as soon as she arrives, Julia runs away but finding the last elephant on Earth in one of Mr. Leopold’s cornfields makes her turn back. While Julia, Johnny, Tabby and Finn are not fast friends, they do learn to work together when they discover that an alien ship has crashed into the barn with an injured alien inside and another escaped insect alien loose on the farm.
Julia, though initially wary of her newfound family, slowly learns to trust her fellow foster kids. But just as she grows more comfortable opening up to the others about the struggles she experienced prior to ending up at the Leopold farmstead, Johnny, Tabby and Finn start to reveal painful memories from their pasts.
At the same time, the Alien, unfamiliar with Earth’s natural environment and unable to communicate directly with its new caretakers, is steadily growing weaker. Fortunately, Abiona Maina, the wildlife activist who cared for Tuko at the refuge, manages to track the elephant down to Mr. Leopold’s farm. After she’s convinced that the Alien isn’t evil, Abiona uses her knowledge of animals to save its life.
The kids have a lot to deal with but, luckily, they also have each other to rely upon. This growing bond is especially helpful as it will take their combined talents to recapture the endlings released when the Alien’s ship crashed into their barn. These include endlings that communicate in a variety of different ways, like frequencies too high or too low for humans to hear, endlings that are more bark than bite, as well as endlings that the kids want to keep forever, even though they shouldn’t.
