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Seasons and episodes
Miniseries
8 episodes · 2016
Episode 1. The Rabbit Hole
2016-02-15 · 81 min
A small-town English teacher, Jake Epping, learns from a friend that there is a portal that leads from the present back to 1960. Jake's friend asks him to help him stop John F. Kennedy's assassination by going back in time and finding out…
Episode 2. The Kill Floor
2016-02-22 · 54 min
Unnerved by the impossibility of his mission, Jake travels to Holden, Kentucky in order to save the family of his friend Harry Dunning, who were all murdered on Halloween by Harry’s father Frank. But does Jake have what it takes to kill a…
Episode 3. Other Voices, Other Rooms
2016-02-29 · 48 min
Jake finds an unlikely ally in his quest in local drifter Bill Turcote. He gets a teaching job in a small town near Dallas and discovers romantic sparks with school librarian Sadie Dunhill. Jake constructs a double life - spying at night…
Episode 4. The Eyes of Texas
2016-03-07 · 53 min
Jake and Bill's partnership starts to struggle as they discover more secrets surrounding the unpredictable Lee Harvey Oswald. The conspiracy involving Oswald deepens, while romance blooms for Jake and Sadie. But by becoming involved with…
Episode 5. The Truth
2016-03-14 · 44 min
Everything begins to fall apart as Jake struggles to live two lives: teacher and time traveler. When Sadie's life is threatened, Jake has to make a terrible choice, leaving Bill to his own devices. Lee Harvey Oswald takes steps that will…
Episode 6. Happy Birthday, Lee Harvey Oswald
2016-03-21 · 48 min
It's October 1963, and the gathering storm of threats in Dallas continues to build. Jake must take drastic action to establish the full dimensions of the threat to Kennedy. And amidst it all, he's hit with an unexpected death and a bitter…
Episode 7. Soldier Boy
2016-03-28 · 51 min
The end is near, and Jake is not up to the task. Sadie scrambles to pick up the pieces, but no one knows the mission as well as Jake. Kennedy and the assassin are on a collision path - but has Jake changed things enough in the past to…
Episode 8. The Day in Question
2016-04-04 · 60 min
The past pulls out every weapon it has to keep Jake from reaching Dealey Plaza in time to save Kennedy. If he fails, it could mean death for Jake or others close to him - and if he succeeds, it could create a world in which he loses…
The show has an interesting time travel premise and is “good“ overall but unfortunately, especially in the second half, it relies a lot on simplistic storytelling, plot conveniences and one-dimensional characters. This reduced my enjoyment over time. For example (no spoilers), two antagonists are characterized by nothing more than “I am a violent psycho” and then unsurprisingly commit violent acts against the main characters with almost no further motivation. The main characters do not involve the police which creates contrived situations that you have seen a hundred times. Almost the same is true for the main antagonist – in the end, we don’t really understand why he does what he does. Another example is that one of the main (good) characters does a 180 in their attitude which feels very contrived and was frustrating for me, because it felt like the writers simply wanted to write them out of the show. With just eight episodes altogether, they could have planned this out and made the switch gradual and realistic.
I also wish that they would have done more with the setting in the past. The contrast between the time periods is shown in the beginning and then sparingly sprinkled here and there, but there is neither character development nor any realization grounded on this contrast. The past feels mostly as a theme park.
In summary, its good, don’t expect too much, be ready to watch parts on higher speed once you just want to finish it and get to the end – that’s what I did.
I sort of cringe when mainstream media says that Oswald acted alone. You know, because people are going to believe the Warren Commission then.
And we all know what a steaming pile that was. We also all know who killed JFK...Allen Dulles.
So, this hurt when I read it and it hurt even more when I watched it on the Hulu machine But I am also a King fan and he likes his build ups and those are always fun. I am disappointed it wasn't longer, I am disappointed some early chapters were cut entirely...but it was still a pleasure to watch.
Franco did a great job in a serious role and got to follow him through King's wonderful twisting plot in a period that felt an lot like the era I've only ever studied.
A disappointment is that it lacked a lot of the nostalgia for the bygone era that King filled the book with and made you feel, at times, that your father was telling the story to you and doing so without editing out the filth the times.
You could see it, but you couldn't feel the fatherly love embedded in the book. All you got was the story itself. But, that story was entertaining and fun to watch.
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