The Time Traveler's Wife: Season 1

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The Time Traveler's Wife: Season 1

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HBO | Season Premiere Date: May 15, 2022

Summary: The marriage between Clare (Rose Leslie) and Henry (Theo James) is complicated by time travel in this Steven Moffat adaptation of Audrey Niffenegger's novel of the same name.

Genre(s): Drama, Fantasy, Science Fiction

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Season 1 Episodes

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S1:E7. Episode Six
Air Date: June 19, 2022
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S1:E6. Episode Six
Air Date: June 19, 2022
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S1:E5. Episode Five
Air Date: June 12, 2022

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Glenn Garvin

May 29, 2022

The idea of different chronological variants of the same character wandering the same timeline would be a forbidden paradox in most time-travel tales. But The Time Traveler's Wife embraces it. Because highly emotional moments in his life act as a kind of magnet for Henry's temporal tumbles, there are certain moments—the awful ones, mostly, like the death of his mother—where there are as many as 20 versions of him looking on, all as dumbstruck with horror as they were the first time they witnessed it. Read full review

Collider Carly Lane

May 11, 2022

Taking certain story weaknesses into account, this version absolutely comes the closest to replicating the feeling one can get from reading Niffenegger's book, which had its own addictive qualities. Read full review

Tom Long

May 12, 2022

Stars Rose Leslie and Theo James have an easygoing bicker-banter chemistry that lets this fantasy rom-com slide past its many ridiculous and overtly sentimental moments. No, it’s not a show for the ages, but it works as a ray of empty-headed spring-summer sunny optimism. Read full review

The Telegraph Anita Singh

May 17, 2022

It plays out like a passable Channel 5 daytime film, not a supposedly prestige series from HBO. The adaptation is so lazy that episodes begin with the lead characters reading lines straight into the camera, rather than anyone making the effort to work them into the script. Read full review

Brian Lowry

May 13, 2022

It's an admirable effort, but one that simply underscores how unadaptable this material might be -- the bottom line being that if time is indeed precious, these six episodes finally feel too much like a waste of it. Read full review

Melanie McFarland

May 16, 2022

This is still a grown man interacting with the woman he'll eventually be sleeping with while she is a child playing with a toy horse. He's weirded out by it, and rightly so; therefore, so are we. Somehow there must be a means of pulling off these scenes in ways that don't make a person's skin crawl, but Moffat has not cracked that nut. ... Whether the main flaw in "The Time Traveler's Wife" is in the flatness of the prose or the emotional disconnect in the delivery is hard to say, but together they conspire to transform Clare into little more than a construct waiting to be animated. Read full review

Carla Meyer

May 11, 2022

With its “Twilight”-level trite dialogue and worldview, lack of adventures and alleged love story that is more like a grooming story, this show is so bad on every level that it is hard to pinpoint blame. Read full review

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Cindylyme

Jun 2, 2022

Great acting! Fans of the book will really like this adaptation. Plenty of drama and a mind bending take on time travel where past and future influence each other in chicken/egg fashion. Some good humorous moments as well!
But above all it’s a romance. I am emotionally invested in theseGreat acting! Fans of the book will really like this adaptation. Plenty of drama and a mind bending take on time travel where past and future influence each other in chicken/egg fashion. Some good humorous moments as well!
But above all it’s a romance. I am emotionally invested in these characters from the start!… Expand

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Asper12

May 16, 2022

Great start to the season, perfect mix of humour, action, romance and danger. Theo James is a revelation and Rose Leslie is the perfect Clare.

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AudreyF

May 30, 2022

This show is my new obsession. The tone is very close to the book, but better, even. Moffat’s additions are brilliant — like Annette’s recording. Theo James and Rose Leslie have really impressed me. They’ve made me cry and laugh.

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pedrwwgo

May 16, 2022

Uma série que tem potencial para ser, talvez, um mistério divertido. Os atores são bem reconfortantes e podem nos mostrar uma atuação de mais divertida ou dramática. Ansioso pelo resto da temporada!

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: May 15, 2022
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  S1:E7. Episode Six
  Air Date: June 19, 2022
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  S1:E6. Episode Six
  Air Date: June 19, 2022
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  S1:E5. Episode Five
  Air Date: June 12, 2022
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  S1:E4. Episode Four
  Air Date: June 5, 2022
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  S1:E3. Episode Three
  Air Date: May 29, 2022
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  S1:E2. Episode Two
  Air Date: May 22, 2022
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  S1:E1. Episode One
  Air Date: May 15, 2022