Some people just need to tell them “leap to yesterday” to see their eyes light up. The Al Madab series, which was originally broadcast between 1989 and 1993, became a cult hit with endless rebroadcasts on cable networks in Israel and around the world, and was one of the pioneers of the travel trend that conquered television and cinema in the following decades. For those who missed the wonder: it was the story of Dr. Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) who is accidentally sucked through time/space during an experiment, and thrown every episode into a different past time and into another person’s body to correct a historical distortion, while being aided by a holographic figure named El (the wonderful Dean Stockwell, may God have mercy) sent to him from the future and artificial intelligence In the name of Ziggy, hoping to return home one day. Yesterday, almost 30 years after its end, the sequel series of “The Leap to Yesterday” aired on NBC, also called “The Leap to Yesterday”.
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Does the world need a sequel to “Leap to Yesterday”? Probably not, but NBC needs a hit and hopes the nostalgia will have its effect. At least according to her first episode, it kind of works for the bastards. The Leap to Yesterday reboot takes place 30 years after Sam Beckett disappeared inside the Quantum Leap Accelerator, and here it is again: Dr. Ben Seong (Raymond Lee, a rare case of an Asian actor in a leading role on American television) is a gifted physicist working on a reboot for the project of Dr. Beckett and wonder and wonder, he is also drawn into the entanglements of time/space and not only does he move in each episode into one person in another time and has to correct history, he also suffers from partial amnesia regarding his true identity. He doesn’t have a god to help him, but there is his daughter and there is an upgraded Ziggy, and on the other hand there is also a liaison officer who is his fiancee and is responsible for communication with the time travelers, so that there will also be a romantic storyline.
The good news is that “Leap to Yesterday” stays true to the principles of the original series, and the original idea behind it holds up well and the nostalgia still works like a charm. Her challenge will be to succeed in recreating the combination of humor, humanity and tension that characterized the beloved nineties series (which was not considered a great success at the time), and at the same time give it a contemporary structure of a series with a continuous plot arc, in contrast to the stand-alone episodes that were common on television until the end of the nineties. One of the things clearly done for this purpose is to lean on an ensemble of characters instead of the cute duo that held the original series together, allowing for more ongoing storylines. We will wait a few weeks before we decide on it but if you grew up in the nineties this is not an event you want to miss.
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