Mark Harrison
Joined Jun 2000
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The idea for the story is quite a good one, a plane arriving five years late but that is as far is to went unfortunately. The bad news started after the first episode. The acting is just awful, I don't know if the casting couch still exists but I can think of no other reason for such an awful actress as Melissa Roxburgh being given the part of Michaela Stone. She is just not credible as an NYPD detective, when she turns up at a crime scene wearing a silly NYPD woollen hat that tourists buy she just looks like a tourist wearing a silly NYPD hat and not anything like a real NYPD detective. She is lucky that the other cast members are just as bad so she doesn't stand out too much.
The plot doesn't really help. It's like the writers had a good idea and then didn't know what to do with it. It meanders around in a confusing malaise which never seems to provide any answers to the audience. The awful acting and incredible weak plot line make it rather like an afternoon soap opera. I find myself looking at the clock waiting for each episode to end, the only thing keeping me going is the forlorn hope of an explanation. The only reason it gets five stars from me is that it had potential, pity it came to this.
The plot doesn't really help. It's like the writers had a good idea and then didn't know what to do with it. It meanders around in a confusing malaise which never seems to provide any answers to the audience. The awful acting and incredible weak plot line make it rather like an afternoon soap opera. I find myself looking at the clock waiting for each episode to end, the only thing keeping me going is the forlorn hope of an explanation. The only reason it gets five stars from me is that it had potential, pity it came to this.
I was expecting the usual American rubbish with the fake British accents thrown in for good measure but I was pleasantly surprised. OK it was unrealistic but all time travel films are unrealistic (how could you go back if you could kill your own parents etc.). However having overlooked this and the fact a British soldier transported from WW1 happens to land in LA and not outer Mongolia, where presumably there are no audience dollars, it is almost credible. The Yorkshire accent is good and the reactions of the Americans he meets are just about believable too. I also liked the concentration on a good plot rather than special effects and furthermore give the producers credit for mostly eschewing the woke agenda and not risibly shoe horning in some fictitious ethnic minorities from WW1 to appease the BLM crowd (as the film 1917 did).
