Like some reviewers said, the time travel premise is quite solid. Very little holes insofar as the time travel bit is concerned and overall an interesting concept. That made it a very promising show.
BUT, and here's where it broke down for me. The storyline requires you to suspend your disbelief. I don't want to give away the plot so I'll use an analogy to describe where it went wrong.
Imagine you were hired out of college by an individual who became your mentor and your teacher. Showed you the ropes in the company, help made you who you are in the company. Fast forward 10 years you are now very experienced, both of you still work there and you trust your mentor with your life. The entire dept is close with everyone becoming familair through years of working together. In come a new hire, green and raw. And after a little while he starts bad mouthing your mentor, saying he stole money from the company etc etc. You couldnt contact your mentor to verify because he's away on a business trip and he's phone is off for some reason. Without waiting, without verifying, without speaking to your mentor of 10 years you decide to take the word of the new hire. Not just you but the entire dept and the boss too. No one took a minute to question the new hire. Maybe he had a bone to pick with the mentor. Maybe he has an ulterior motive. Nooooo. Nobody bothered and so all of you villianise your mentor.
That's what the writers want you to swallow and this becomes one of the main pillar themes of the show.
When this was introduced I thought the writers will use an ingenious way to make up for it later to make me go - Aha, good one. But nope. They just kept on with it. And then the big slap on the face came when everyone found out the new hire was lying all these while, framing the mentor and.... nothing happened. The new hire continued on. No punishment. No sacking. No nothing. That definitely broke it for me.
Won't be watching Season 2.
BUT, and here's where it broke down for me. The storyline requires you to suspend your disbelief. I don't want to give away the plot so I'll use an analogy to describe where it went wrong.
Imagine you were hired out of college by an individual who became your mentor and your teacher. Showed you the ropes in the company, help made you who you are in the company. Fast forward 10 years you are now very experienced, both of you still work there and you trust your mentor with your life. The entire dept is close with everyone becoming familair through years of working together. In come a new hire, green and raw. And after a little while he starts bad mouthing your mentor, saying he stole money from the company etc etc. You couldnt contact your mentor to verify because he's away on a business trip and he's phone is off for some reason. Without waiting, without verifying, without speaking to your mentor of 10 years you decide to take the word of the new hire. Not just you but the entire dept and the boss too. No one took a minute to question the new hire. Maybe he had a bone to pick with the mentor. Maybe he has an ulterior motive. Nooooo. Nobody bothered and so all of you villianise your mentor.
That's what the writers want you to swallow and this becomes one of the main pillar themes of the show.
When this was introduced I thought the writers will use an ingenious way to make up for it later to make me go - Aha, good one. But nope. They just kept on with it. And then the big slap on the face came when everyone found out the new hire was lying all these while, framing the mentor and.... nothing happened. The new hire continued on. No punishment. No sacking. No nothing. That definitely broke it for me.
Won't be watching Season 2.