- Network: ABC
- Series Premiere Date: Mar 5, 2017
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Time after Time is timeworn.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It’s based on the 1979 novel and movie and is more romantic fluff than thriller.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 16 out of 37
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Mixed: 8 out of 37
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Negative: 13 out of 37
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