Fans of shows like Homeland and Manifest from across the globe are watching this five-year-old Peacock original mystery thriller. The Canadian series, Departure, which aired for three seasons, is gaining ground on the global streaming charts. Per FlixPatrol, Departure is in the Number 10 spot in Netflix’s Global Top 10 as of July 5.
Globally, Netflix’s Squid Game is topping the charts with The Sandman, Attack on London: Hunting the 7/7 Bombers, The Waterfront, and Olympo rounding out the Top 5.
Departure stars Archie Panjabi, who won an Emmy in 2010 for her role in The Good Wife, and the late Christopher Plummer, who won an Oscar in 2012 for Beginners, and starred in movies like The Sound of Music, Knives Out, and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. The cast also features Mark Rendall, Kris Holden-Reid, and Eric McCormack.
What Happened to the Missing Plane?
Similar to shows like Lost and Manifest, the conspiracy drama Departure follows the mystery of Flight 716. The passenger plane mysteriously vanished over the Atlantic Ocean. Panjabi’s Kendra Malley, an aviation investigator, is called to help figure out what happened to the plane. Plummer plays Howard Lawson, Kendra’s former boss and mentor. Unlike other shows, Departure mainly focuses on the investigation surrounding the missing flight, and not the people on the plane.
Departure, like Showtime’s Emmy-winning series Homeland, which ran from 2011 to 2020, features a female lead also pursuing the truth. In Homeland, Claire Danes starred as CIA operations officer Carrie Mathison, who carries out an unauthorized operation in Iraq and is then relocated to the CIA’s Langley, Virginia counterterrorism center.
In Departure, Kendra Malley, working as a Transport Safety and Investigations Bureau investigator, must try to track down the missing plane as the clock ticks, all the while trying to figure out why it disappeared in the first place.
Departure
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The Work from Actor Christopher Plummer
Departure also marked the last on-screen role for Plummer, who died in February 2021. Plummer appeared in the first two seasons of the show. Per Newsweek, Plummer had finished all of his scenes for the second season of the series before his death. He reportedly also filmed all of his scenes for the second season from his Connecticut home due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
It was explained in the second season of Departure why Plummer was in the same location the entire run of the six-part second season. In Season 1, Plummer’s character had been arrested, so the producers decided to make it so that his character would remain under house arrest through the second season.
Plummer’s Howard character was written off in the finale of the second season, revealing to Kendra that he was sick, but had been keeping it a secret from her.
Departure is streaming on Netflix globally. In the U.S., Departure streams on Fawesome and the Roku Channel.
