Part of the beauty of being off of work is being able to absorb a lot of fiction—audio and visual seems to be how I do things anymore. I listen to a lot of audiobooks and I watch a ton of tv. Really bad tv. My latest watch is called Travelers. It replaced Killing Eve when I fell asleep on an episode of that one. I decided to give it a try and then kept going. Here is where things get complicated.
The show has a lot of potential but is also limited because it has to work within strict and narrow parameters. It is about time travelers who connect back to a specific time to right the future. Within the scope of that argument we see that there are also five character stories based entirely on how these characters interact with each other and fall into their former lives. This is where the story is the most interesting at times but they keep the focus on the time travel mission, and there is where it all starts to fall apart.
The given future is basically a version of Hugh Howey’s Dust. The steps requires to prevent that from happening are vague and the missions the team or teams carry out are only loosely connected and difficult to make real sense of.
In the end this show has potential but overall it is not a good show and lacks a great deal of creative power in terms of show to show action and plot. If it has more to offer it hasn’t yet.