So Apple TV, Netflix, and Steven Spielberg had a 3 way tryst and the result is a reboot (er, re-imagining) of the 1980's TV favorite which was re-imagining of the re re-imagining of Rod Serling's "The Twilight Zone", where we are once again handed a key to unlock the door of imagination..... Whether that door opens to a lighter, brighter palette, or Serling's originally decidedly darker tones, has yet to be seen.
In it's first offering, we are invited to consider the vagaries of time travel, with the (just slightly) PC/ woke inclusion of a same sex adoptive family, a left and right swiping millennial, but likable, Lothario, and the renovation of an old farmhouse that conceals a Tardis, er, time portal, which, under the correct circumstances, can transport anyone in the vicinity forwards or backwards in history.
When those correct circumstances do indeed occur, one lucky bloke (Sam) finds himself in the same place, but, exactly 100 years previously. Hijinks ensue as he meets a woman who, due to an untenable financial situation, and a (just slightly) overbearing Mother (in a nice turn by NCIS / Rizzoli and Isles Sasha Alexander) finds herself about to be "auctioned off to the highest bidder", in an effort to save the same said family farm. Ahh, the "good old days".
As this entire enterprise involves time travel, after the boy meets the girl, the boy loses the girl, then becomes obsessed with trying to get BACK to the girl, which he does, but, in a timey whimey wibbly wobbly twist having something to do with basement add on's and air pressure, arrives at the wrong period, however, after endeavoring to persevere, he again finds the girl, and, just as we think we're about to get the happy ending.......
We get "A" happy ending, just not the one we really really really wanted to have! I'm right there with you @ Isael Chan, as I found myself yelling go, Go, GO, at my screen when she went to investigate the disturbance in the hallway. "Missed him by THAT much", comically came to mind.
Yes, episode one was a slightly underwhelming, yet pleasantly pleasing effort, and, I'm willing to give the show-runners and writers time to find their footing, and catch their stride. Who know's, maybe maybe THIS reboot won't get THE boot.
Review by Paladin5150BlockedParent2020-03-13T12:02:51Z
So Apple TV, Netflix, and Steven Spielberg had a 3 way tryst and the result is a reboot (er, re-imagining) of the 1980's TV favorite which was re-imagining of the re re-imagining of Rod Serling's "The Twilight Zone", where we are once again handed a key to unlock the door of imagination..... Whether that door opens to a lighter, brighter palette, or Serling's originally decidedly darker tones, has yet to be seen.
In it's first offering, we are invited to consider the vagaries of time travel, with the (just slightly) PC/ woke inclusion of a same sex adoptive family, a left and right swiping millennial, but likable, Lothario, and the renovation of an old farmhouse that conceals a Tardis, er, time portal, which, under the correct circumstances, can transport anyone in the vicinity forwards or backwards in history.
When those correct circumstances do indeed occur, one lucky bloke (Sam) finds himself in the same place, but, exactly 100 years previously. Hijinks ensue as he meets a woman who, due to an untenable financial situation, and a (just slightly) overbearing Mother (in a nice turn by NCIS / Rizzoli and Isles Sasha Alexander) finds herself about to be "auctioned off to the highest bidder", in an effort to save the same said family farm. Ahh, the "good old days".
As this entire enterprise involves time travel, after the boy meets the girl, the boy loses the girl, then becomes obsessed with trying to get BACK to the girl, which he does, but, in a timey whimey wibbly wobbly twist having something to do with basement add on's and air pressure, arrives at the wrong period, however, after endeavoring to persevere, he again finds the girl, and, just as we think we're about to get the happy ending.......
We get "A" happy ending, just not the one we really really really wanted to have! I'm right there with you @ Isael Chan, as I found myself yelling go, Go, GO, at my screen when she went to investigate the disturbance in the hallway. "Missed him by THAT much", comically came to mind.
Yes, episode one was a slightly underwhelming, yet pleasantly pleasing effort, and, I'm willing to give the show-runners and writers time to find their footing, and catch their stride. Who know's, maybe maybe THIS reboot won't get THE boot.