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This makes his first few days in the past wonderfully intoxicating, as we are displaced into this strange landscape that could turn sinister at any moment. But then Jake settles into life in the 60s, gets a job as a teacher and waits for the assassination to roll around.

Even worse, the eeriness of the past fighting back all but disappears once Jake really starts playing fast and loose with history. Without the supernatural undercurrent, the adrenaline drops considerably. Please enter your email address and we will email you a new password. We want to hear what you have to say but need to verify your account. Just leave us a message here and we will work on getting you verified. Though the execution feels almost as dated as the period it represents, Rate this season.

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Cinemark Coming Soon. Regal Coming Soon. By opting to have your ticket verified for this movie, you are allowing us to check the email address associated with your Rotten Tomatoes account against an email address associated with a Fandango ticket purchase for the same movie. An unassuming divorced English teacher stumbles upon a time portal that leads to and goes on a quest to try and prevent the assassination of John F.

Thrown by the enormity of his goal, Jake decides the one thing he can do to make a real difference is save the family of his friend Harry Dunning; Harry's family was murdered in a small Kentucky town by Harry's out-of-control father, Frank. Jake finds an unlikely ally in his quest; Jake gets a teaching job near Dallas and discovers romantic sparks with a librarian; trailing Oswald takes Jake into the dark side of Dallas, where he realizes Oswald may not be the only threat facing JFK.

Jake and Bill's partnership starts to struggle as they discover more secrets surrounding the unpredictable Lee Harvey Oswald; the conspiracy involving Oswald deepens; romance blooms for Jake and Sadie.

Everything begins to fall apart as Jake struggles to live two lives: teacher and time traveler; when Sadie's life is threatened, Jake has to make a terrible choice; Lee Harvey Oswald takes steps that will lead him into a date with destiny. It's October , and the threats in Dallas continues to build; Jake must take drastic action to establish the full dimensions of the threat to Kennedy; Jake is hit with an unexpected death and a bitter betrayal from one of those closest to him.

The end is near and Jake is not up to the task; Sadie scrambles to pick up the pieces, but no one knows the mission as well as Jake; Kennedy and the assassin are on a collision path. If he fails, it could mean death for Jake or those close to him; if he succeeds, it could create a world in which he loses everything he's ever known.

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First Name. Last Name. By signing up, you agree to receiving newsletters from Rotten Tomatoes. You may later unsubscribe. Create your account Already have an account? Sadly, that turns out to be both a good and a badly developed idea — there are long stretches where the past seems to forget what it wants, or when its fights back in ways that are either out of scale or ineffectual.

Jake now has to find a way to survive in the past until , all while trying to make sure history is right and Lee Harvey Oswald Daniel Webber is the man he needs to stop. So while he shadows Oswald, with the not-always-effective help of his new friend Bill George MacKay , he takes a job at a suburban Dallas school.

And to make matters worse, Franco is only convincing in the love story, where he does his best work. Book editor Jordan Hamessley London actually paused the show and turned to the Internet in search of an explanation. He says the show suffers from the opposite problem, that the explanation it offers was too brief and nonsensical. And check out some highlights from the discussion below.

In the book it made it seem like he was willing to put aside any personal issues that he might have had in order to just put himself into the mission, whereas I thought that throughout the miniseries he came across as very unlikeable, because of a lot of these decisions that he makes that end up causing problems in a way that he then has to deal with. And I thought the miniseries—speaking of the realism of the time—definitely did a better job of engaging with the racial tensions of the past than the book did.