I was thinking of 4 stars because of plot-line but considering I did finish it then it at least deserve 5.
Storyline is not new, intriguing spin of Butterfly Effect, Repeaters, Ground Hog Day, Happy Death Day, Edge of Tomorrow, Cloud Atlas which is essentially person who lost his family gets to see them again by going back in time to when they were alive and trying different things to prevent the deadly accident. What is different on this series is the time travel is to other parallel universes, so that it never affects his current timeline ever. From this standpoint, this time-travel actually makes more sense then many other movies on this list because you have have that dreaded 'if I went back in time and change something I wouldn't exist in the future to go back in time' loop that dooms every other time traveling movie.
Acting, directing on par, I really liked that they just wigs and make up to show younger selves instead of CGI, little jump in belivablility but adds a layer of unintended humor(45yr old playing the 22yr old previous self) that doesn't distract from story the way CGI does.
My negatives? It can be slow sometimes, this 10 episodes could have easily been done in 5 and would have been a tighter more cohesive story with less fluffing. Top of my list is writing of main character. I understand getting someone who is grief-stricken to want to do this over and over, but the character came off more as mentally developmentally slow rather then grief stricken. It felt like I was a special needs child who found a time machine in backyard and kept going in without learning anything from previous trips. I blame this on being 10 shows because after with so many trips there should have been a learning curve that never happened. Made it hard to empathize with the protagonist.
Not a bad series in any means, and emotional types will get wrapped in in that part of the story and not care about the rest. Others will be bored.
Storyline is not new, intriguing spin of Butterfly Effect, Repeaters, Ground Hog Day, Happy Death Day, Edge of Tomorrow, Cloud Atlas which is essentially person who lost his family gets to see them again by going back in time to when they were alive and trying different things to prevent the deadly accident. What is different on this series is the time travel is to other parallel universes, so that it never affects his current timeline ever. From this standpoint, this time-travel actually makes more sense then many other movies on this list because you have have that dreaded 'if I went back in time and change something I wouldn't exist in the future to go back in time' loop that dooms every other time traveling movie.
Acting, directing on par, I really liked that they just wigs and make up to show younger selves instead of CGI, little jump in belivablility but adds a layer of unintended humor(45yr old playing the 22yr old previous self) that doesn't distract from story the way CGI does.
My negatives? It can be slow sometimes, this 10 episodes could have easily been done in 5 and would have been a tighter more cohesive story with less fluffing. Top of my list is writing of main character. I understand getting someone who is grief-stricken to want to do this over and over, but the character came off more as mentally developmentally slow rather then grief stricken. It felt like I was a special needs child who found a time machine in backyard and kept going in without learning anything from previous trips. I blame this on being 10 shows because after with so many trips there should have been a learning curve that never happened. Made it hard to empathize with the protagonist.
Not a bad series in any means, and emotional types will get wrapped in in that part of the story and not care about the rest. Others will be bored.