Plan B: Season 1

Season overview

Plan B is a Canadian television drama series that premiered on CBC Television on February 27, 2023. The series functions as an anthology, with each installment centered on a mysterious agency known as Plan B. This organization provides clients with the unique opportunity to travel back in time to alter their pasts and attempt to reshape their lives. In the first season, the narrative follows an ambitious young lawyer who discovers this capability. Driven by a desire to fix his relationships and construct a perfect life, he utilizes the agency to navigate his personal history. However, the series explores the inherent limitations and complexities of personal agency, as the protagonist discovers that even with foreknowledge of future events, he cannot control every outcome. Each alteration made to the timeline results in unintended consequences, challenging the character's efforts to achieve his ideal existence. Created by Jean-François Asselin and Jacques Drolet, the series serves as an adaptation of the French-language Quebec series of the same name. Through its exploration of time travel and human choice, the show examines the tension between the desire to reject the future and the reality of rewriting the past.