It’s alive!!!
(This review contains
spoilers!)
Ah, Timeless. It’s
been a while since I talked about this show. Over a year, in fact. Since the
first season wrapped up in February of last year we fans got a scare akin to
the sort of stuff the Time Team had to deal with every week: the show getting
cancelled! Aaaaaahhh!
But through some lucky break the show
was given a second chance, and although we had to wait extra to get there,
Season 2 was on its way with the promise of being better than ever. Hooray!
Even as one of this show’s biggest
pushers on Twitter and the like, I had to admit I was going in with low
expectations. A show that had literally been brought back from the dead was
surely not going to have the budget and writing staff that made the first
season such a thrill, right?
Wrong! This episode was quick to
remind me of why I fell in love with the show in the first place, as well as
establish the new tone for the season going forth. It’s a blast in the past,
and it’s exactly what patient fans have been hoping for.
Picking up right where we left off,
Lucy has gone missing after getting that stunning revelation from her mom, and
Mason Industries has been destroyed. The only survivors are (here’s a big
shock) the main characters, as they now all work together in an underground
base trying to get the Lifeboat operational again to keep hunting down
Rittenhouse and find Lucy.
Meanwhile, Lucy is playing sleeper
agent with her mom and Emma, both of them Rittenhouse agents, as they travel
back to WWI to find a mysterious man who they have to bring back to present
day. It’s a race against time as Wyatt and Rufus follow close behind and try to
save the day and set things right.
One thing that’s immediately apparent
is the darker nature of this episode alone when compared to Season 1. Don’t get
me wrong, the show could get grim at times, but here they take full advantage
of the 10:00 PM timeslot. Early on in the episode Lucy, the main heroine of the
show, kills an innocent man in cold blood just to keep her mom thinking she’s
working with her. That’s pretty crazy, even for this show, but it works really
well for what this season is clearly trying to go for.
It turns out that Rittenhouse agents
are hanging out all over the place in WWI, as Wyatt finds a soldier with a
modern day phone in his pocket, and Lucy’s mom’s target is apparently a big
deal in the organization. Despite managing to take down a lot of the facades of
Rittenhouse at the end of last season, it looks like the rest of them are more
akin to how Flynn found Emma at the end of last season, hiding in history
waiting to return to action.
Speaking of Flynn, the episode ends
with Agent Christopher leaving the new base and meeting with him in his jail
cell, where he says he’ll only speak to Lucy. While Rittenhouse is undeniably
going to be the main villain going forward, you have to wonder what Flynn’s got
up his belt this season. He’s like the Grant Ward of Timeless. You have no idea what to expect from him and you absolutely
don’t trust him, but he’s such a great bad guy that it’s awesome to have him
around.
What a premiere this was. This episode
wastes no time in getting you right back into the action (I did appreciate the
full season recap before the episode started though, as I haven’t seen this
show in a year), reuniting you with the characters and showing you how this
season’s going to be different. I’m more than happy to welcome the Time Team
back with open arms. Here’s to a fantastic season!
I’m not calling myself a #Clockblocker
though. I’m fine as just a big fan, thanks.
FINAL SCORE
10/10
Legendary
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