This is watchable and entertaining - more so if you are into time travel shows. It is a blatant copycat of the much better Spanish show the Ministry of Time (El Ministerio Del Tiempo) who apparently are suing Timeless for copyright violation, but hey that means more time travel episodes for all of us time travel junkies. You can really feel the low budget with this one. Although they do a reasonable job the casting and acting is just so so. I think Matt Lauer's role is the most miscast. He is supposed to be the warrior of the group that protects the group on these dangerous missions and, having all of the potential big tough guys of the United States forces from the Navy SEALs to Delta Force and so on to choose from they picked a small short guy who literally seems to get his butt kicked every episode he has to actually fight. I also find the role of Paterson Joseph who plays the Elon Musk type character has been completely ruined by terrible writing as he flip flops from charismatic, confident, powerful businessman to weak and unconfident lackey. The writers really ruin an opportunity for a good character here. Abigail Spencer is pretty good in the role though not nearly as good as her counterpart in the Ministry of time Aura Garrido. The Rufus character is also a bit of a wasted opportunity. He's pretty much the glorified driver of the Time Machine, and in every episode used to remind us - as he tells us early on in the show - at no time in the past was it good to be a black man. Malcolm Barrett is pretty good and there is so much more that the writers could be doing with his character. I hope we'll see more character development in season two. The character of Flynn is by far the best and the best acting performance on the show provided by Goran Visnjic. This is a more Americanized version of The Ministry of Time with the theme of travelling back in time to battle against bad guys who are trying to mess with history in that it is much more action based... Which is great. Again it's nice to have both of these shows to fill the time travel fix and I'm glad it got renewed for a second season.
