Riverworld: Season 1 (2011)

Based on the novels by Philip Jose Farmer, the two-part miniseries is set in a strange, watery world where people can re-experience death time after time after time. The story centers on Matt (Tahmoh Penikett), a war reporter who dies with his fiancée Jessie (Laura Vandervoort) in the blast from a suicide bomber. When he awakens without her in the odd afterlife, he goes in search of her—and, along the way, joins forces with Mark Twain (Mark Deklin) and a 13th-century female samurai (Jeananne Goossen).