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I am a huge fan of the Time Travel subgenre. Series spun from movies often suck, and my partner hates 'dystopian blue-filter' sci-fi, so I never got to see the show until now. I've been isolated and bingeing hard.
First of all, dust off your 35mm projector and watch your copy of La Jetée. If you don't have one, find it somewhere on the Interwebs and watch it. It's worth a detour.
Time travel presents infinite opportunities and possibilities of twists, turns, and revisits of fictional and historical events. The show does not dissapoint. As expected, trying to do anything in the past creates more problems, expanding the scope of the story out farther into space and time.
I loved Aaron Stanford in Breaking Bad. In 12 monkeys he does a solid job, as does Amanda Schull, I guess. But it is the rest of the ensemble that carries the show: Kirk Acevado as the complicated best friend, Barbara Sukowa as the 'mad scientist' forcing mission after mission, and a slew of others.
But it's Emily Hampshire as Jennifer Goines who steals the show. I couldn't wait to see what kind of nuttiness would happen next, and was not let down.
The show is fun, clever, and does not take itself too seriously, which makes it easy to overlook the obvious disagreement with causality and physics. I strongly recommend it.