My quick rating - 7,7/10. Oh, this better come back for a second season! This is a one of a kind time travel type show that really suckers you in from the beginning. It gives you a scenario that has SO many plausible outcomes that there is no way to know where it will go. And how they make this work is I don't truly believe they knew where it was going either. It feels so fluid in how Joe Barton wrote this that makes me miss corporate days and having a show like this to talk about weekly around the water cooler. Each episode leaves you more or less coming up with more possibilities and when you think you know, you don't. It won't leave you speechless such as Inception or a few others but it is highly effective. The cast to me was basically anonymous but Paapa Essiedu is our lead who realizes that he has the ability to remember back to what has happened after time reverts back to a certain day, when also no one else can do this. A group has been formed to use this ability to stop mass catastrophic events form happening. Sort of like Timecop only in a much more sophisticated presentation. There is a lot more to this show though then just one-offing a single incident and calling it end of episode. There is multiple threads going on that I cannot delve into due to spoilers. The cast itself is really well done and I am sure these are actors more recognized in the U.K. The action scenes are nicely shot and gives a unique look around some cities that are not the norm for USA styled television. I am sure there will be plenty of people that are not going to like this and I will tell you why. They won't understand it! So as long as you believe yourself to be an intelligent viewer and like a good bit of scifi, this should make your watchlist asap. It starts out tame enough but due to some brilliant writing it slowly develops into far more than just shooting the bad guy and saving the world.
Not available for streaming yet but it is coming to TNT network and has already aired on the British Sky network.
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