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Timeless works in a lot of timely commentary via the characters of Rufus and Lucy, who in earlier eras, as a black man and woman, are not treated well. Having made such sociopolitical points, the series is also free to become a potboiler adventure, with a lot of frantic searches for both historical figures who need protecting, and for Flynn, who’s out to cause mayhem.
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For better or worse, and in this case mostly better, the show works.
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After two episodes, the resulting impression is ambivalence. Without anything strong to latch onto, Timeless is adrift in a sea of medium feels, none pressing enough to justify continuing the journey. Well, none but Abigail Spencer.
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A wildly uneven action-adventure-fantasy drama from executive producers Eric Kripke ("Revolution," "Supernatural") and Shawn Ryan ("The Shield," "The Unit"), it awkwardly follows a scientist, a soldier and a history professor pursuing the mysterious criminal who stole a secret time machine.
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It's not great, but it's not bad.
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It wants to be a stupid time travel show about people chasing a bad guy into the past to preserve American history. And on that level, I think it succeeds!
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Timeless shouldn’t be quite so efficient at answering its own riddles, not if it wants to maintain viewer interest. Unfortunately, the procedural aspect of the show necessitates such expediency. Ryan’s previous work in the genre managed to soar above the rest of its offerings, but here it just bogs down the headier sci-fi themes.
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Timeless is quite funny, sometimes intentionally.
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The show (or the pilot, at least) falls quickly into the problem of taking an arrogant look back at the follies of a (as portrayed) quaintly ignorant past.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 141 out of 203
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Mixed: 33 out of 203
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Negative: 29 out of 203
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Oct 7, 2016
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Nov 2, 2016
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Oct 14, 2016