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I can see that this series is trying to correct some of the problems with the movie "Frequency" and, imho, it does it. I am sure you know, the movie was the story but father and son have a ham radio interest and one day... via magic... the son can talk to the father 20 years apart.

The series changes that up a bit for the better. In the movie the father is a firefighter. That is fine on its own but once the dad is saved and the mom is murdered... it would make more sense for the dad to be a cop - and that is the case here.

Secondly there is a gender swap on the main character. What was once a son is now a daughter who is engaged. This works better for me as well. When the timeline is changed she loses her fiancee which I think works better on a woman. Now she has dad back but has lost mom and her finance.

The only issue is that it is 13 episodes when it probably should have only been 9 or so. There are parts of the middle of the season that are slow and plodding. But the conclusion is done well.

I heard so much about this one but in the end I had to turn it off. I think honestly it was just the culture clash of what life was like 100 years ago. The plot itself doesn't seem bad it is the strained way everything goes.

Right from the start I was irritated with the "scavenger hunt" opening. Everything was so bizarre and over acted. I couldn't stand it. But once Godfrey gets a job I though we might have something... I was wrong. Godfrey, a supposed homeless forgotten man, shows up the next day dressed to the nines as if he had been a butler all his life. They did have him leave the tags on his outfit but it seemed unrealistic. He knows instantly what to do and starts doing it.

Now the girl who offered him the job Irene is totally in love with him. I get that William Powell is good looking but he does seem too old for her. Irene herself was insanely grating. Crying at everything, screaming, taking insane turns to get Godfrey's attention. In the movie it is supposed to be cute but it grated on me.

By the time we were about an hour in and I could not care less about what happened to any of these people... I turned it off. If I wanted to go full woke I would remark on how Irene is a complete sexual harasser causing Godfrey to quit. But I won't use today's standards to judge this movie.

I heard so much about this series but I was not impressed. It is yet another *glorify* serial killer story. I am getting tried of them. But I had hoped this one might add something new in the form of a good looking and *relatively normal* married father of two who is also a serial killer. Unfortunately, it does not offer anything new or interesting. We are just meant to accept that this guy is a serial killer *because*.

Gillian Anderson plays Scully with blonde hair and a slutty demeanor. Within the first two episodes her character had a random hook up with a man she knew for minutes. This goes into a plot line meant to highlight sexism but how did she get to be in charge if things are so sexist? More women avoiding responsibility.

In any even this show sets up several soft plot-lines that I think are meant to give the series legs but are just boring and not necessary. I put up with them to get to the end and see the killer brought to justice... but.. he isn't... Particularly galling with all the mistakes this killer makes.