Time After Time
ABC | Release Date: March 5, 2017
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
59
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 24 Critic Reviews
Positive:
10
Mixed:
13
Negative:
1
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
IndieWireLiz Shannon MillerMar 3, 2017
Season 1 Review: There’s enough intrigue to some of the time travel-related ones for me to keep watching. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleDavid WiegandMar 2, 2017
Season 1 Review: Logic isn’t a factor here, but the show is fun, rather evocative of ABC’s canceled “Forever” and the aforementioned “Timeless.” Read full review
75
St. Louis Post-DispatchGail PenningtonMar 2, 2017
Season 1 Review: This new Time After Time, charming and engaging, does the very best thing it could do: It respects (and doesn’t ruin) the movie. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyJeff JensenFeb 21, 2017
Season 1 Review: The well-acted pilot is winningly old-fashioned, but the pull remains unclear. [24 Feb/3 Mar 2017, p.93]
70
SalonMelanie McFarlandMar 6, 2017
Season 1 Review: With Time After Time he’s struck a balance between honest emotional resonance and salacious violence. Strangely enough, this combination makes this midseason series more charming and enjoyable than one would expect. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesRobert LloydMar 6, 2017
Season 1 Review: When Stevenson trawls a nightclub looking for a victim, it feels anything but fresh, and it’s suspenseful in the most mechanical way. It's the "Dawson's Creek" Williamson who’s the more valuable here; the romance and the comedy are what keep the series buoyant. Read full review
70
The Salt Lake TribuneScott D. PierceMar 3, 2017
Season 1 Review: The first couple of hours are very entertaining. Which isn't surprising, given that the show is basically just cribbed from a very entertaining movie. The question is how this premise is going to hold up starting in Episode 2 (which was not screened for critics). Read full review
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)Jen ChaneyMar 3, 2017
Season 1 Review: Time After Time is not an amateurish show; it’s actually quite polished. Read full review
67
Newark Star-LedgerVicki HymanMar 6, 2017
Season 1 Review: This is supposed to be a cat-and-mouse game, but it's more like a kitten with a ball of yarn. Read full review
63
USA TodayRobert BiancoMar 3, 2017
Season 1 Review: Time is an attempt to put a new twist on a conventional network-TV mystery series, and on its own minor terms, it largely works, The cast is attractive, the story is told with some wit, and the first hour, at least, moves along nicely. The main problem is one that haunts many such adaptations: The story still seems better suited to a movie (which it was) than a series. Read full review
60
CNNBrian LowryMar 3, 2017
Season 1 Review: Yet even with some elaborate new wrinkles, before it's over the launch betrays the inherent challenge in teasing out this sort of murderous cat-and-mouse game. Read full review
60
ColliderAllison KeeneMar 3, 2017
Season 1 Review: Time After Time has the opportunity to do something worthy of both of their light and dark legacies. Whether or not it does, only time will tell. Read full review
58
Uncle BarkyEd BarkMar 3, 2017
Season 1 Review: Stroma and Rodriguez have some sweet getting-to-know-you moments together while Bowman has presence as a menace run amuck. Still, by the end of Episode 2, a dull-edged redundancy is already starting to set in. Read full review
58
Boston HeraldMark A. PerigardMar 1, 2017
Season 1 Review: Like all time-travel shows, paradoxes can emerge like sinkholes. Still, the cast works so much charm, they must be exhausted by the end of the day. Read full review
50
Los Angeles Daily NewsRob LowmanMar 6, 2017
Season 1 Review: The original movie worked because Wells was played as a man out of time and Steenburgen’s character longed for a gentleman while still wanting to be a modern woman. The new series doesn’t let that relationship ripen enough; so it ends up diving too quickly into violence and sci-fi fantasy to get its grounding. Read full review
50
The Lincoln Journal StarJeff KorbelikMar 6, 2017
Season 1 Review: It’s based on the 1979 novel and movie and is more romantic fluff than thriller. Read full review
50
Reason.comGlenn GarvinMar 4, 2017
Season 1 Review: ABC's Time After Time is a lock for this year's Emmy in the "Imitation Is the Sincerest Form of Idiocy" category, being not only part of an insanely overworked genre but a remake of the 1979 film of the same name. Read full review
50
The New York TimesMike HaleMar 3, 2017
Season 1 Review: The science-fiction and thriller elements are routine, and Mr. Bowman doesn’t have the suave menace David Warner brought to the Ripper in the film. What does work is the cross-century romance between Wells and the woman he befriends. Read full review
50
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob OwenMar 3, 2017
Season 1 Review: It’s unclear if the series will rise above a constant cat-and-mouse game between Wells and Jack, something that seems like it could get old quick. Read full review
50
Washington PostHank StueverMar 3, 2017
Season 1 Review: Time After Time is not nearly as compelling or creepy as it aims to be--it could use a smidgen of the fun that “Timeless” came by naturally. Read full review
50
We Got This CoveredMitchel BroussardMar 3, 2017
Season 1 Review: It lacks urgency. One episode doesn’t represent an entire series, but as far as hooks go this one likes bite, and a winsome cast and pleasantly silly premise can’t make up for its shortcomings. Read full review
50
NewsdayVerne GayMar 1, 2017
Season 1 Review: Time after Time is timeworn. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterDaniel FienbergMar 3, 2017
Season 1 Review: Time After Time is less utterly hollow than Williamson's CBS dud Stalker and slightly less literarily pretentious than Fox's The Following, but there remains an excess of uninterrogated slasher carnage. Read full review
30
VarietySonia SaraiyaMar 3, 2017
Season 1 Review: Aside from Stroma, who is a charming fellow even in the worst circumstances, there is nothing to recommend in Time After Time, which feels neither adequately steeped in time travel or the lore of H.G. Wells to really deliver what its premise suggests. Read full review
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