Canada makes lite beer. Now it makes Lite Sci-Fi.
After recent hits like Eureka and some of the Stargate sagas, frankly I was expecting more. Not that Timeless is bad, it is simply not great.
Your humble reviewer remembers watching the series Time Tunnel in 1966 (IMDB it!) and now 50 years later this is the closest thing I have seen to a knockoff.
The irony is that the Frozen North has for many years specialized in "period" movies and TV -- a fact many viewers are not aware of - so someone figured out how to kill two birds with one stone. A show with a proved (if dusty) concept using sets and costumes that the Canadian warehouses are full of.
The writing is not spectacular, nor the acting, nor the special effects. On the other hand, I have been a fan of Abigail Spencer since she played Scotty in Suits and, generally, there are worse ways to spend an hour.
This is sci-fi ... lite. And it works.
After recent hits like Eureka and some of the Stargate sagas, frankly I was expecting more. Not that Timeless is bad, it is simply not great.
Your humble reviewer remembers watching the series Time Tunnel in 1966 (IMDB it!) and now 50 years later this is the closest thing I have seen to a knockoff.
The irony is that the Frozen North has for many years specialized in "period" movies and TV -- a fact many viewers are not aware of - so someone figured out how to kill two birds with one stone. A show with a proved (if dusty) concept using sets and costumes that the Canadian warehouses are full of.
The writing is not spectacular, nor the acting, nor the special effects. On the other hand, I have been a fan of Abigail Spencer since she played Scotty in Suits and, generally, there are worse ways to spend an hour.
This is sci-fi ... lite. And it works.