I’m a sucker for a good time travel story and am fascinated by quantum physics. I grew up on Terminator, Back to the Future, and Flight of the Navigator so my foundation in quantum science is sound. You have one way time travel in which you must travel nude and create an alternate timeline. You have back and forth time travel in which you have one timeline that you can affect and wipe family members from pictures until you are holding a picture of shrubbery for some odd reason. Travelers follows terminator rules but with an interesting twist on the concept. Travelers can only go in one direction in time but can only send their consciousness into the past into another host.

The basis of Travelers is that the future is screwed. Who woulda thought? The future is so advanced that there is a super computer that can predict alternate timelines by altering the past. Based on these predictions the computer named “The Director” sends teams of people into the past to change specific events to save the future. Each member of the team has a specialty and they are sent into peoples bodies that are seconds away from dying by their own actions only to save them, and covertly take over their lives to be undercover “travelers”. The show revolves around one team specifically led by Eric McCormack (Grant MacLaren) of Will and Grace fame. He brings some credibility to the cast given that the rest are not very well known. This isn’t to say they fall short in any way. MacKenzie Porter (Marcy Warton) plays a character with a very interesting journey and Jared Abrahamson (Trevor Holden) has an interesting backstory and portrays it very well. The rest of the cast add very interesting dynamics to an original plotline in an old sci-fi genre.

Originally on cable and canceled after the second season, Netflix picked up Travelers shortly after and green lit a third season. You can now find the entire series on Netflix as a Netflix original. Admittedly part of my motivation in writing this is to ensure enough viewership to get a fourth season made. Travelers has really scratched that itch I have to watch a show that takes me down the time travel rabbit hole that has me pondering possibilities and repercussions of altering the past. The consciousness dynamic is a fun twist that adds many possibilities for writers to work with. I see on Facebook news feeds every week people asking to “hit me with some new netflix shows”. Well I’m hitting you with Travelers right now and am looking forward to a greater discussion on this show. Drop your rating and comments on the show below.