Martypies Review of Time After Time

Time After Time (2017)

2 Stars for reasonably good acting but that's it

[2/10 · 6 March 2017]

One of the other reviews I read pretty much said most things I wanted to say but this is another bad time travel show, even worse than Timeless. Science Fiction writers need to understand that they're not writing a sitcom and that we the viewers are quite intelligent and see all the plot holes. Like Timeless, Time After Time is another "chase" time travel show. In this one, HG Wells is chasing Jack the Ripper and even though Doctor Jack is leaving a pile of dead women in his wake, nobody seems to want to kill him. In the single most pathetic scene in the pilot, our 2017 heroine disables Jack by hitting him over the head with what looks like a heavy ceramic candy bowl. Jack is down for the count and does she go over to him and bash his skull in with the bowl? No, she races to the bedroom to get the other girl Jack has tied up and gagged in there, then she carefully grabs Jack by his legs and drags him out of the doorway so they can make a run for it. Of course he soon wakes up and catches up to them before they even make it to the stairs. This could very well be the most insulting piece of story writing I have ever seen in my 57 years. This is Jack the Ripper, she knows who he is and she is happy to run away when she has him unconscious! Anyway, I fast forwarded after that just in case they kill him in the end but he manages to escape after getting tasered by a security guard. He then calls HG and tells him he is going to kill one woman every day until he gives him the key to the time machine, blah blah blah, let's watch another 9 episodes chasing Jack and just missing him at the end. He will probably have killed 50 women by then and all because our dumb heroine didn't hit him harder with the candy bowl. The acting is quite good, it's not their fault they're working with a woeful script. If you want to watch a good time travel show, take a look at the first season of Travelers. It's excellent with strong characters and very good story telling.