scott-1657

I didn't get the point of this unless it's merely for the shock value, military effects, etc. There is so much that could be done with something like this, and yet it was devoid of politics. You really can't have a civil war without politics. After all the gunfire, after all the "splosions," after all the casualties, you have to ask yourself: What is this all about? WHY are they having a civil war? Well, you could make up your own reasons, but don't scriptwriters get paid for that? And California and Texas... were they on the same side? That just wouldn't happen. Not in my lifetime.

I adore and respect Kirsten Dunst, but I completely did not believe her character's arc (such that it was). I didn't find the "evolution" of Cailee Spaeny's character believable, either. In fact, none of them were particularly believable to me--it wasn't the acting; it was the writing. Even more absurd was that some of the "revolutionary" forces were downright crazy, but yet, simply because the main characters' vehicle was stenciled "Press" and they had press passes, they were allowed anywhere and even embedded with troops wherever they went. Nope, very unrealistic to me--they would have been targets.

I found this empty and vacuous, and maybe the point was to scare people about the possibility of a civil war in the US, but this could actually have had a script of some depth. I had been looking forward to this film since it had been announced, and I was very disappointed.

I've found this Netflix series quite late in the game, but I'm very glad I did. It's one of the best time-travel-themed series I've seen.

The Netflix summary never drew me to it, until I read a review on a sci-fi site and then looked it up here on IMDB and saw viewer comments.

It does remind me of a few other science fiction shows I've really enjoyed over the years. Though it's very different than SyFy's 12 Monkeys, it provides a very unique perspective (at least in my experience) on changing the future through the past. Its ensemble cast reminds me a bit of Dark Matter, which was also shorted seasons by the network that produced it (in that case, SyFy, like 12 Monkeys). And because there's an FBI tie-in to this series, there were moments where it reminded me of X-Files, and I did think the main character (Eric McCormack as Grant MacLaren) was a bit like a serious Fox Mulder/David Duchovny.

This is a Canadian series, but the production values are very good. I guess to appeal to an American audience, it takes place in Washington State, just over the border. All the actors were unknown to me, but I think every one of the leads-McCormack, MacKenzie Porter (especially), Nesta Cooper, Jared Abrahamson, Reilly Doman, Patrick Gilmore, Leah Cairns, J. Alex Brinson, and Jennifer Spence did a fabulous job embodying their characters. TBH, I had to look up every name here on IMDB but I hope to see some in other series.

I don't usually don't like romance, etc., in my sci-fi, but the character portrayals, connections, and development sometimes brought tears to my eyes and the series rarely lagged.

Netflix cancelled this after the third season and, you know what, sometimes less is more. It's very possible they'd served up the cream of this series, and more seasons might have diluted it. Without offering a spoiler, the end of the third season was so climactic that, for me, it served as a series ending.

I gave this a 9 instead of a 10 only because I reserve 10s for very, very selected things-mostly movies. But I highly recommend this to fans of time travel. I enjoyed this immensely and will miss it.

Well, I guess I'm pretty jaded. I thought this was amusing, watchable, the cast members were likable, the locations for seasons 1 and 2 were beautiful.

But I am just flabbergasted by the number of awards given to this series. Are we rating on a bell curve? (I think so.)

This was very watchable and very streamable (I stayed up very late getting to the end of the second season one night) but I don't even know if I'll remember it in a couple of years. Despite the debate about this, it just seemed to me to be another HBO series about rich, white folk doing whatever they please and sometimes agonizing about it.

I did not see this when it originally "dropped" but binged it after the end of the second season. I enjoyed Rita Coolidge, F. Murray Abraham, Simona Tabasco, Alexandra Daddario, Beatrice Grannò, and a couple of others, but basically I found this series to be a time filler.

As far as humor, yes, it's light-hearted, and I realize it's more satire (well, is it?) but, at most, I found myself actually *laughing* not more than once an episode.

Like I say, I guess I'm jaded.