22.11.63 is an 8 part series from Stephen King (who wrote the original book) and JJ Abrams (producing), that deals with a man travelling back in time to prevent the assassination of JFK.
All time travel shows depend on a) the means of travelling back in time, and b) the rules you need to obey once you get there. Here it's pretty clunky - the means is a cupboard in a diner, and the rules are that i) you end up at the same time and place as a starting point each time, ii) that 2 minutes passes no matter how long you spend in the past, and iii) if you try to change history bad things happen.
The central premise is good, and apparently King thought of it in the early 70s. However it seems rooted in the past, because surely an American man in the 2010s would actually want to go back to stop 9/11 and the Gulf War, rather than keep JFK alive and (supposedly) then stop Vietnam.
It looks very glossy, and clearly has had lots of money spent on it. Why have one vintage car from the 1950s to set the scene when you can have about 30 parked up?
At this point, Dan's will to blog gave out. He didn't watch beyond episode one. Enough said.
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