The CW’s new drama Frequency plays with time as Raimy Sullivan (Peyton List) reconnects with her father Frank Sullivan (Riley Smith) via ham radio twenty years after his death. It goes without saying that the new series packs an emotional punch.
OMFGTV sat down with Frequency leading lady Peyton List where she reveals that filming and watching the show gets her emotional.
“I think what’s interesting about this show — at least for me — is the emotion hits me not necessarily at the predictable times,” she tells us. “I will actually find myself thinking about a scene while I’m cooking dinner and I’ll just sort of process it and let it sink in and I’ll find myself getting choked up, ‘Where did that come from? Why am I emotional?'”
“It’s really heard to pin down what that emotion is,” List continues. ” I think it’s really brave that they just go for it on the show. It’s really vulnerable, it’s really raw. There’s a lot of it that appealed to me. I think it’s great that you see behind the curtain with these characters.”
Time travel seems to be the “it” thing this season. NBC has Timeless, and coming midseason, ABC and FOX has Time After Time and Making History, respectively. Peyton even has a few friends working on these shows, but she says, “Frequency was the only time travel show I read during pilot season.”
While all these shows play with time, there is one distinct difference that she says makes Frequency stand out.
“With this [show], it’s sort of time travel but we’re not physically traveling,” List says. “It’s the consciousness. It’s not getting into a machine or walking into a plane. It’s the frequency, it’s the waves. I think that makes it different.”
“You’re not physically going to another time. As much as I would love to do that and I think that would be amazing, we don’t really explore that. We just explore the butterfly effect and things taken into trajectory and taking a different path.”
Frequency premieres tonight, October 5, at 9pm on The CW.