
Limited series · ABC
The Crossing
Who's in it
Cast
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TV DNA
How The Crossing actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
The Crossing reads strongest on Spectacle, Bingeability and World Building.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
Refugees from a war-torn country start showing up to seek asylum in an American town. Only the country these people are from is America and the war they are fleeing is 250 years in the future. The local sheriff with a past, a federal agent and a mother in search of her missing refugee daughter drive this allegory with a surprising conspiracy at the center.
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.

S01E01
Pilot
After 47 refugees mysteriously wash up in a small fishing town, local sheriff Jude Ellis teams with DHS agent Emma Ren to assess their unusual claim ... that they're fleeing a war 180 years in the future. The mystery deepens when Jude realizes that one of the new arrivals possesses heightened abilities and is a threat to his town, setting the two of them on a collision course. As the rest of the refugees acclimate to their unfamiliar surroundings, Emma learns that one has information that calls into question everything she thought she knew about our present time.
- Directed by Rob Bowman
- Written by Dan Dworkin, Jay Beattie

S01E04
The Face of Oblivion
Desperate to rescue his son, Oliver, from a potentially lethal situation, Jude reaches out to Emma with a request that could endanger the lives of everyone at the camp. Meanwhile, Hannah’s secret past comes to light, Sophie discovers something unexpected in Leah’s blood work and Paul discloses a shocking piece of information about the earlier migration.
- Directed by Tara Nicole Weyr
- Written by Evan Bleiweiss

S01E02
A Shadow Out of Time
In a flash-forward to the year 2187, Reece finds Leah, an orphaned Common baby, and goes against her Apex cohorts to take her in as her own. In present day, Jude – hoping for a peaceful solution with the Feds – is blindsided by a mysterious black-ops team’s intent on capturing Reece by any means necessary.
- Directed by David Von Ancken
- Written by Dan Dworkin, Jay Beattie
Recently aired
Latest Episodes

S01E11
These are the Names


S01E09
Hope Smiles from the Threshold
- Directed by P.J. Pesce
- Written by Matt Olmstead

S01E08
The Long Morrow
- Directed by Hanelle M. Culpepper
- Written by Vivian Tse

S01E07
Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream
- Directed by Alrick Riley
- Written by Deirdre Mangan

Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Dan DworkinExecutive Producer
- Jason ReedExecutive Producer
- Jay BeattieExecutive Producer
Writing
- Evan BleiweissWriter
- Vivian TseWriter
- Matt OlmsteadWriter
- Dan DworkinWriter
- Rebecca SonnenshineWriter
- Deirdre ManganWriter
Direction
- P.J. PesceDirector
- Hanelle M. CulpepperDirector
- Jeffrey G. HuntDirector
- Rob BowmanDirector
- Bill SpeersDirector
- Alrick RileyDirector
Music
- Robert DuncanOriginal Music Composer
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