About Eureka
Eureka is a warm sci-fi comedy-drama set in a seemingly idyllic small town hidden in the Pacific Northwest, where the United States government has quietly relocated its most brilliant scientific minds. Behind the friendly storefronts and tree-lined streets, the residents of Eureka spend their days inventing world-changing technology for the research firm Global Dynamics, and almost every one of those experiments has a habit of going spectacularly wrong.
Into this town of geniuses stumbles U.S. Marshal Jack Carter, an easygoing everyman who becomes the local sheriff almost by accident. Carter has no advanced degrees and no scientific training, but his sharp instincts and plain common sense make him uniquely suited to defusing the high-tech disasters that the smartest people in the country keep unleashing. Week after week he untangles runaway inventions, accidental time loops and dangerous gadgets before they can level the town.
Grounded by his relationships with Department of Defense liaison Allison Blake and the brilliant, endlessly capable local Henry Deacon, Carter slowly builds a life and a family in Eureka. Across five seasons the series balances inventive science-fiction mysteries with genuine heart and humor, telling a story about ordinary decency holding its own in a place where genius runs wild.