What to read, watch, and listen to if you lovedFrequency
Jeremy Carver · Series · 2016
If you loved Frequency, start with Frequency (Gregory Hoblit, 2000) — a film from the same story. Below: 4 books, 1 film and 2 podcasts, each matched to Frequency across media.
You loved Frequency because it turns the high-stakes concept of altering the past into an intimate, heart-wrenching quest for human connection.
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The source
Frequency
Gregory Hoblit · Film · 2000
Books on the same thread
The Time Traveler's Wife
Audrey Niffenegger · Book · 2009
Shares a thread with Frequency: Time Travel.
Like Frequency, this story centers on a relationship defying the constraints of time, exploring how the longing to be with someone transcends the boundaries of chronological reality.
Dark Matter
Blake Crouch · Book · 2016
Explores: Identity Crisis, Parallel Universes, Regret.
This novel echoes the existential anxiety found in Frequency, focusing on the unintended consequences of changing one's life path and the emotional toll of navigating alternate realities.
The End of Eternity
Isaac Asimov · Book · 1955
Shares a thread with Frequency: Moral Dilemmas.
If you enjoyed the complex moral dilemmas and temporal paradoxes in Frequency, you will appreciate this classic examination of how manipulating time inevitably forces difficult, life-altering choices.
The Dream Daughter
Diane Chamberlain · Book · 2018
Shares a thread with Frequency: Moral Dilemmas.
Similar to the father-daughter bond in Frequency, this narrative captures the desperation of a parent using time travel to rewrite history and protect the person they love most.
Films on the same thread
Frequencies
Darren Paul Fisher · Film · 2013
Explores: Forbidden Love, Social Stratification, Determinism vs. Free Will.
Much like the ham radio connection in Frequency, this story explores how fixed patterns of fate can be challenged, emphasizing the struggle to maintain love against rigid, deterministic forces.
Podcasts on the same thread
CounterClock
Audiochuck · Podcast · 2025
Explores: unsolved homicide, seeking justice, historical mystery.
Fans of the investigative side of Frequency will recognize the obsession with turning back time to solve cold cases and the relentless pursuit of justice across the years.
The Truth
The Truth · Podcast · 2026
Explores: human condition, experimental storytelling, moral ambiguity.
These cinematic audio stories mirror the moral ambiguity and speculative mystery of Frequency, delivering compact, impactful narratives that challenge your perception of reality and human motivation.
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Common questions
Is Frequency the 2016 TV show a direct sequel to the 2000 movie?
The 2016 Frequency television series is a reimagining of the original 2000 Frequency movie. While both share the core premise of a father and daughter communicating across time via a ham radio, the television series establishes its own narrative continuity and characters separate from the film.
What is the premise of the Frequency television series?
In Frequency, detective Raimy Sullivan discovers she can communicate with her father, Frank Sullivan, through a ham radio. Frank is broadcasting from 1996, twenty years in the past. They attempt to change historical events, but their actions threaten the lives of those they love in the present.
How do the 2000 movie and 2016 TV show Frequency relate to each other?
Both versions of Frequency center on the concept of a long-broken ham radio bridging a twenty-year time gap between a father and his child. The 2016 television show adapts the central conceit of the 2000 film into a serialized drama focusing on the consequences of altering the past.
Does Frequency focus on a specific time travel mechanism?
Yes, Frequency utilizes a specific ham radio as the conduit for communication across decades. By transmitting through this device, characters in the 2016 series and the 2000 film are able to bridge the twenty-year gap between the past and the present to attempt to rewrite their personal histories.