'Surface' Review, Synopsis and General Information

Premiered: September 19, 2005

When Was it Canceled?: May 2006
The series ran for one season on NBC and produced 15 episodes.

Cast: Lake Bell as Laura Daughtery
Jay R. Ferguson as Richard Connelly
Carter Jenkins as Miles Bennett
Ian Anthony Dale as Davis Lee
Leighton Meester as Savannah Bennett

Post-Cancellation News: Leighton Meester went on to land a role on the CW's Gossip Girl.

Trivia: During the May 2005 upfront presentations in NYC, the show went by the name Fathom.

Rae's Take: What if there was a new life form discovered in the depths of the ocean? What if we dropped down a notch on the food chain? How would we handle it? This show has quickly become one of my favorite guilty pleasures of the week. Surface terrified me, not because of the creatures, but the idea of a discovery much like the creatures on the show is likely sometime in the distant future.

Synopsis: Ever wonder what life would be like if a new form of sea life began to appear in locales all over the earth?

Surface is an expansive drama series that centers on the appearance of mysterious sea creatures in the deep ocean -- and tracks the lives of a variety of characters. They are: Laura Daughtery, the young oceanographer who discovers the secret; Government Scientist Dr. Aleksander Cirko and Pentagon Official Davis Lee, who both try to keep things under wraps; Richard Connelly, the Louisiana fisherman-insurance salesman who loses his brother in a suspicious diving accident; and Miles, the young boy who brings the creatures ashore.

The mystery ensnares a spectrum of people, including naval officers in the South Antarctic Sea, a family in Wilmington, North Carolina, scientists from the Oceanographic Institute in Monterey, and divers in the Gulf of Mexico. The seemingly innocent creatures they find are beautiful -- but they are full of surprises as viewers continue on a journey to discover what might be lurking in the sea.

Summary provided by NBC.