This one is by far the best episode of the entire series, it reminds me the quality of Star Trek TNG episodic Sci-Fi stories, centered on one crewman, I enjoy this episode more that entire season of Star Trek Discovery.
Acting is superb, Tala Ashe (Zari) does a wonderful job as a lead for this episode, and reveals a character full of potential, beyond what we saw until now.
Everyone gets some extra detail, even Gideon, anyway, without spoilers I can't say much, there are enough references and details in this episode to make it enjoyable to even the most casual Sci-Fi fan.
I recommend this episode even to people that doesn't watch the series, it works as a movie on itself.
13 Reviews
Old trope, but done so well!
jwwalrath-227-8548725 February 2018
Yes, the whole trapped in a time loop bit has been done, but I'll be darned if this isn't one of the best episodes of the season.
There is a surprising lot of heart and humor to this episode. Though they do nothing new with the time loop concept, they manage to write some surprisingly good material. (And it doesn't hurt that the episode is self-referential about more famous time loop story lines.) Being a bottle episode, a lot more time is spent on the main characters and it works pretty well.
I've thought that Zari has been a decent protagonist so far, but this is the moment I've realized I genuinely like her. She steals the show: both very funny and very sympathetic and dramatic. For a show that starts out humorous, it really hits you in the feels in the end.
Probably one of their best episodes.
There is a surprising lot of heart and humor to this episode. Though they do nothing new with the time loop concept, they manage to write some surprisingly good material. (And it doesn't hurt that the episode is self-referential about more famous time loop story lines.) Being a bottle episode, a lot more time is spent on the main characters and it works pretty well.
I've thought that Zari has been a decent protagonist so far, but this is the moment I've realized I genuinely like her. She steals the show: both very funny and very sympathetic and dramatic. For a show that starts out humorous, it really hits you in the feels in the end.
Probably one of their best episodes.
Brilliant episode
jaypeesol20 February 2018
Warning: Spoilers
I want to say thanks to whoever wrote this episode, whether it was inspired by one, or made by a writing team. I'm a huge fan of mysteries and whodunnits, and this was a classic example of a brilliant mystery. The clever hints hidden at the beginning of the episode was perfect. I would have gotten the twist if this was not a scifi show and my mind didn't wander into different time-travel scenarios. That twist was such a perfectly simple solution. Again, to the writers, thank you!!!
Perfect!
annikaalexis6 November 2018
Best episode of Legends of Tomorrow (Maybe one of the best episodes of arrowverse)
bkjfeet4 November 2018
Warning: Spoilers
No doubt this episode is inspired by Groundhog day (in a way). But I loved how they make Nate reference it. Also I nearly fell out of the chair when Ray mentioned the Star Trek TNG episode - Cause and Effect as it is the same story. Tomaz gave an exceptional performance proving she belongs in Arrowverse. Also the rare appearance of Gideon in human form was too fun to watch. The 9.1 user rating in imdb is thoroughly deserved. It had perfect balance of humour, emotions and plot.
Hedgehog day episode
Tigerbai128 April 2018
Best Episode in season 3 so far!
zekehardrock1 March 2018
Groundhog Day Meets the Legends of Tomorrow
cap9629 May 2019
This episode was WONDERFUL! Just a joy to watch from beginning to end.
While I already liked Zari, she did feel a little separate from the rest of the team, but, in the span of one episode, now feels as central as any of the major characters. Her team-up with Nate - the only one who would believe her when she said she was stuck in a time loop - was absolutely hysterical. More of them together please! The plot device of the bomb exploding the ship every hour was a great way for Zari to bond with the crew, and led to some truly hilarious and heartfelt revelations. The greatest of these being, of course, what Zari and Nate discover about Mick. Oh Mick, never change!
This episode is the best of the season so far, and one of the best of not only Legends of Tomorrow, but of the entire arrowverse! Props to Caity Lotz and Brandon Routh, who took more of a backseat here, but who were so great, as usual. Special shoutout to Nick Zano for a fantastic performance - his warmth and sense of comedic timing stole the show - he is such an incredible force! But the MVP of this episode is without a doubt Tala Ashe, who gives what may be the best performance so far this season...on any of the arrowverse shows. Seriously, her performance here rivals Caity Lotz's during the finale of season 2 of Legends.
All in all, an amazing episode!
Disco costumes + Hedgehog Day + Pervy AI = Run Romp
imakk200120 February 2018
Warning: Spoilers
The secrets revealed confirmed things already suspected such some of the Legends' romantic shenanigans or showed things unexpected such as Mick's book. The Groundhog Day repetition of Ray's diagnosis for Zari, Mick's boobie traps, getting Nick's help, Zari's cue cards, were just some of the delightful takes on the movie.
Also, I want to see the mentioned but unseen Bonaparte in 1975 mission with the botched disco musical number in all its glory on the dvd set.
Zari really has been flying under the radar since she joined the team and this was a much needed ep to bring her into the foreground. While some might find her big moment a little forced, I think everything she went through repeatedly help sell that moment between her and the team.
The twist did feel a bit unnecessary and took away some of the oomph from Zari, but it was to squeeze in a lot of exposition re her place on the team, and we get to see Gideon who was right about Gary.
The cherry on top, though, has to be CWLegends' bts instagram of the homage to the Bee Gee's Staying Alive. That's an absolute must-see, and should have been how the ep ends rather than the actual end scene. Unlike We Are The FlashIris,This is Legends of Tomorrow which doesn't need a hook to get viewers to watch each week.
Score: 9.1
Also, I want to see the mentioned but unseen Bonaparte in 1975 mission with the botched disco musical number in all its glory on the dvd set.
Zari really has been flying under the radar since she joined the team and this was a much needed ep to bring her into the foreground. While some might find her big moment a little forced, I think everything she went through repeatedly help sell that moment between her and the team.
The twist did feel a bit unnecessary and took away some of the oomph from Zari, but it was to squeeze in a lot of exposition re her place on the team, and we get to see Gideon who was right about Gary.
The cherry on top, though, has to be CWLegends' bts instagram of the homage to the Bee Gee's Staying Alive. That's an absolute must-see, and should have been how the ep ends rather than the actual end scene. Unlike We Are The FlashIris,This is Legends of Tomorrow which doesn't need a hook to get viewers to watch each week.
Score: 9.1
Bill Murray
nebohr19 August 2022
Damn... Unnecessary!
lassegalsgaard18 May 2018
Warning: Spoilers
This episode is one of the most unecessary episodes that I have ever seen from any of the Arrowverse shows. I understood that it gave some needed screentime for one of the least developed members, but I didn't think this episode had any place in this space. Let's start out with the positives. I liked that this episode was focused on Zari, because she is one of those characters who needs a bit more development, as she hasn't gotten the best so far. She is an interesting character in herself, but I haven't gotten that episode that really made me like her. Until now, because this episode made me appreciate her spot on the team a little bit more than I did before, although I still don't think we have gotten the right amount of character development for this specific character.
I want to give some huge congrats to the editors of this episode. I have a feeling that an episode with this specific storyline can be hard to edit together, but I think they managed to do it perfectly. The way they edited around the destruction of the ship and simply went into the same scene but with some other lighting or some insignia to tell the audience that this was not the same scene. I really like that. I also liked how the scene showing the destruction of the ship appeared multiple times in the episode, and that they kept that scene consistent without really changing that much.
I found some of the moments in this episode really funny. There were multiple scenes where they comment on Rory and his love for writing and the fact that he was writing a novel, was one of the best reveals this show has ever done. It makes sense to give Rory these weird habits that he probably wouldn't have had elsewhere. I also liked the montage where we see Zari have some fun on the ship instead of worrying about it being destroyed. That was a funny scene that added some cool things to this character and made her a little bit more relatable.
However, this was not an episode that I will ever remember. The episode got its title from a segment in an ABBA song, and there were simply too many ABBA references in this episode. As I said, I loved the humor in this episode, but I still don't think that humor has to be cheesy in order to be funny, and many of these references simply stood out as cheesy to me. I love ABBA as much as any other living human being, but I don't need to be reminded about them every other scene.
This episode also threw every last bit of logic left in this show out in the toilet. The fact that Zari simply had to say two words to Nate in order for him to understand and totally believe what was going on, seemed like a weird decision to me and made Nate seem even more dumb than he actually is. I also think that a lot of the characters made some weird decisions, and I think Zari even came with the weirdest option as to why the ship exploded, instead of simply seeing the obvious thing, which was that she had done something wrong. Had that been her first thought, this episode could have been a lot better.
I also think the episode got unecessarily dark at times. There is a scene where Zari is about to kill herself, and while I understand the decision behind it, this is not the show for a scene like that. And then, she is about to sacrifice herself in order to save her friends, which is probably a heroic moment for her, but the writing made is so incredibly cringeworthy. I didn't believe her decision based of what she had heard from the other crew members while in the loop, and I don't think the writers did justice to the character in a scene that could have been very emotionally draining.
In the end, this was an incredibly unecessary episode, and the explanation as to why this is all happening made me so disappointed. I didn't like the reveal at the end with Gideon, and I don't think they needed to do this for a bottle episode. I could have thought of so many other and more impressive things they could have done, than this weird stuff.
I want to give some huge congrats to the editors of this episode. I have a feeling that an episode with this specific storyline can be hard to edit together, but I think they managed to do it perfectly. The way they edited around the destruction of the ship and simply went into the same scene but with some other lighting or some insignia to tell the audience that this was not the same scene. I really like that. I also liked how the scene showing the destruction of the ship appeared multiple times in the episode, and that they kept that scene consistent without really changing that much.
I found some of the moments in this episode really funny. There were multiple scenes where they comment on Rory and his love for writing and the fact that he was writing a novel, was one of the best reveals this show has ever done. It makes sense to give Rory these weird habits that he probably wouldn't have had elsewhere. I also liked the montage where we see Zari have some fun on the ship instead of worrying about it being destroyed. That was a funny scene that added some cool things to this character and made her a little bit more relatable.
However, this was not an episode that I will ever remember. The episode got its title from a segment in an ABBA song, and there were simply too many ABBA references in this episode. As I said, I loved the humor in this episode, but I still don't think that humor has to be cheesy in order to be funny, and many of these references simply stood out as cheesy to me. I love ABBA as much as any other living human being, but I don't need to be reminded about them every other scene.
This episode also threw every last bit of logic left in this show out in the toilet. The fact that Zari simply had to say two words to Nate in order for him to understand and totally believe what was going on, seemed like a weird decision to me and made Nate seem even more dumb than he actually is. I also think that a lot of the characters made some weird decisions, and I think Zari even came with the weirdest option as to why the ship exploded, instead of simply seeing the obvious thing, which was that she had done something wrong. Had that been her first thought, this episode could have been a lot better.
I also think the episode got unecessarily dark at times. There is a scene where Zari is about to kill herself, and while I understand the decision behind it, this is not the show for a scene like that. And then, she is about to sacrifice herself in order to save her friends, which is probably a heroic moment for her, but the writing made is so incredibly cringeworthy. I didn't believe her decision based of what she had heard from the other crew members while in the loop, and I don't think the writers did justice to the character in a scene that could have been very emotionally draining.
In the end, this was an incredibly unecessary episode, and the explanation as to why this is all happening made me so disappointed. I didn't like the reveal at the end with Gideon, and I don't think they needed to do this for a bottle episode. I could have thought of so many other and more impressive things they could have done, than this weird stuff.
Zuri's Rewind
hellraiser77 June 2019
Warning: Spoilers
Warning do not read unless seen episode.
This is one of my favorite episodes of the show, it's "Legends of Tomorrow" doing "Groundhog Day", this isn't anything new but it's really in it's execution. What makes this episode stand out is the fact that it's focused on the newest member Zuri. I always like episodes that shine the spotlight on someone that never had much time in the spotlight, it really gives that character a chance to shine but also shows how it's not just certain central character that inhabit the world their in.
Really like the dynamic she has with Nate (which of course is somewhat of a foreshadowing for latter on) as both are in the detective roles. At first, it's a mystery where we're all trying to find the bomb, but really the whole bomb is a McGuffin device by its nature. Here we see both are really discovering different things about each of the team members behind closed doors; this is interesting because it's true we never really know the private lives of our neighbors. My favorite one was with Mick; it was really funny how serious he is about keeping his secret as we see all of the multiple traps he installed just to hide the story he's writing. That's understandable, a writer myself I never want anyone to read my work until it's finished, let along want to keep the details top secret.
Really liked the fun montage, which was fun and funny, seeing Zuri just simply doing whatever she wants to do within the hour. From having some sort of whip cream eating contest with Nate, reading Mick's story which turns out to be good, Zuri wearing costumes, and a little moment that was an homage to a "Hard Day's Night".
But of course, we see near the end, things get serious and it a sad moment when we see Zuri is just in a state of absolute despair. She is so emotionally far down in the pits we see her become suicidal. We then see Sara talk her down and connect with her by believing in her, but also shows that Zuri's not alone.
This episode just has a lot of things from connection, bring out into the open whatever it is we keep hidden, and how one person can deeply affect a family and how important they truly are for there can never truly be a family without one.
Rating: 4 stars
This is one of my favorite episodes of the show, it's "Legends of Tomorrow" doing "Groundhog Day", this isn't anything new but it's really in it's execution. What makes this episode stand out is the fact that it's focused on the newest member Zuri. I always like episodes that shine the spotlight on someone that never had much time in the spotlight, it really gives that character a chance to shine but also shows how it's not just certain central character that inhabit the world their in.
Really like the dynamic she has with Nate (which of course is somewhat of a foreshadowing for latter on) as both are in the detective roles. At first, it's a mystery where we're all trying to find the bomb, but really the whole bomb is a McGuffin device by its nature. Here we see both are really discovering different things about each of the team members behind closed doors; this is interesting because it's true we never really know the private lives of our neighbors. My favorite one was with Mick; it was really funny how serious he is about keeping his secret as we see all of the multiple traps he installed just to hide the story he's writing. That's understandable, a writer myself I never want anyone to read my work until it's finished, let along want to keep the details top secret.
Really liked the fun montage, which was fun and funny, seeing Zuri just simply doing whatever she wants to do within the hour. From having some sort of whip cream eating contest with Nate, reading Mick's story which turns out to be good, Zuri wearing costumes, and a little moment that was an homage to a "Hard Day's Night".
But of course, we see near the end, things get serious and it a sad moment when we see Zuri is just in a state of absolute despair. She is so emotionally far down in the pits we see her become suicidal. We then see Sara talk her down and connect with her by believing in her, but also shows that Zuri's not alone.
This episode just has a lot of things from connection, bring out into the open whatever it is we keep hidden, and how one person can deeply affect a family and how important they truly are for there can never truly be a family without one.
Rating: 4 stars
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