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Stasis

  • Episode aired Apr 14, 2000
  • TV-PG
  • 44m
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7.1/10
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Sean Patrick Flanery and Kristin Lehman in The Outer Limits (1995)
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In a world where resources are limited, each shift of workers is placed in stasis during their off hours. A man and woman from different shifts fall in love and try to circumvent the system.In a world where resources are limited, each shift of workers is placed in stasis during their off hours. A man and woman from different shifts fall in love and try to circumvent the system.In a world where resources are limited, each shift of workers is placed in stasis during their off hours. A man and woman from different shifts fall in love and try to circumvent the system.

  • Director
    • Brian Giddens
  • Writers
    • Lawrence Meyers
    • Leslie Stevens
  • Stars
    • Sean Patrick Flanery
    • Kavan Smith
    • Matthew Walker
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.1/10
    237
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Brian Giddens
    • Writers
      • Lawrence Meyers
      • Leslie Stevens
    • Stars
      • Sean Patrick Flanery
      • Kavan Smith
      • Matthew Walker
    • 2User reviews
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    Sean Patrick Flanery
    Sean Patrick Flanery
    • Eric Waters
    Kavan Smith
    Kavan Smith
    • Dominic Langton
    Matthew Walker
    Matthew Walker
    • Winston
    Maureen Thomas
    Maureen Thomas
    • Elizabeth
    Robert Lewis
    Robert Lewis
    • Miguel
    Brenda Crichlow
    Brenda Crichlow
    • Kayla Powers
    • (as Brenda M. Crichlow)
    Kristin Lehman
    Kristin Lehman
    • Larissa Whitestone
    Gordon Tipple
    Gordon Tipple
    • Finerman
    Garfield Wilson
    Garfield Wilson
    • Officer
    Phillip Mitchell
    Phillip Mitchell
    • Security Man
    Erica Carroll
    Erica Carroll
    • Claudia
    Kevin Conway
    Kevin Conway
    • Control Voice
    • (voice)
    Geoff Adams
    • Mover
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Brian Giddens
    • Writers
      • Lawrence Meyers
      • Leslie Stevens
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    6Hitchcoc

    Just the Way Things Are

    Another dystopia. Here the powers that be have feasted on the fruits of people who are put in stasis. That is, at some point it was decided that there wasn't enough to eat or enough work for the whole population and so they would sleep for a period of time and then return to their work life for the next period. This is a nice arrangement until we come to realize that even if things start to get better, those upper crust folks (like in The Hunger Games) aren't about to give anything back to the long suffering workers. Not only that, they have some other plans for the moisture in their bodies. This is a story of three people. Two fall in love but are in different shifts. The other is a play-by-the-book guy who seems to have power and fears losing it. The interest I had in this was to see how the writers would tie things up. Not a bad episode but covering old ground.

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    • Trivia
      Per the title, the term stasis is from the Greek for "stop", and when used in science-fiction, means an artificial pause that stops all physical and chemical processes of life to put an individual into extended hibernation or suspended animation.
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      Control Voice: Unless humankind awakens to the need to preserve its future, it may one day find itself asleep for eternity.

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    • Release date
      • April 14, 2000 (Canada)
    • Filming locations
      • Bloedel Conservatory and Aviary - 4500 Cambie Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada(the Elite's party)
    • Production company
      • Atlantis Films
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      • 44m
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby

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