Great Series Loses Its Way
This is a highly enjoyable series in part.
The story follows a husband in an unhappy marriage with two young children, who accepts an opportunity to go back in time and redo his life by NOT meeting his wife. Of course, this leads to him learning some important life lessons.
It takes a couple of episodes to set the scene, but it is worthwhile persisting because it really hits its stride thereafter, and is extremely entertaining until the primary plot climaxes in episode 12.
Unfortunately thereafter it appears that the writers didn't have a clear plan for where to take the story next, so it just meanders along for the final 4 episodes to a pleasant but wholly unsatisfactory conclusion.
The ensemble cast is uniformly terrific, particularly the lead actress.
This could have been rated a 9 or even a 10 if only the writers were smarter, and had executed those last 4 episodes correctly.
The story follows a husband in an unhappy marriage with two young children, who accepts an opportunity to go back in time and redo his life by NOT meeting his wife. Of course, this leads to him learning some important life lessons.
It takes a couple of episodes to set the scene, but it is worthwhile persisting because it really hits its stride thereafter, and is extremely entertaining until the primary plot climaxes in episode 12.
Unfortunately thereafter it appears that the writers didn't have a clear plan for where to take the story next, so it just meanders along for the final 4 episodes to a pleasant but wholly unsatisfactory conclusion.
The ensemble cast is uniformly terrific, particularly the lead actress.
This could have been rated a 9 or even a 10 if only the writers were smarter, and had executed those last 4 episodes correctly.
- aylwardpaul
- Aug 30, 2022