![]() There is no slogging through a dense back-story with this show. At this point, I have seen the first two episodes. Since I never saw the film, I can only judge the series on its own merits. I think this TV series-by Syfy-needs to be judged separately from the Bruce Willis film with the same name. I find all these rave reviews here inexplicable. Nothing in the episode and a half I made it through was in any way original or imaginative or particularly enjoyable. Her hot crazy girl was a stereotypical as possible, a virtual parody or every hot crazy girl performance you've ever seen. Instead, she was another attractive actress giving a bad performance. At the end of the first episode they showed a glimpse of one last character, so I decided to watch episode 2 to see if perhaps she was that single compelling character that pulls it altogether. There is something absurd about the woman insisting her ex should have believed her crazy story she should be smart enough to know why that would be hard to do, but of course on TV believing people regardless of how crazy they sound is portrayed as a requisite of love. People acted less like people than like stereotypes. The actors were attractive but not talented or persuasive. There was something grim and humorless and just un-fun about it. I didn't care for 12 Monkeys from the beginning. I would give season two a generous five what gives this show a generous average of six. I saw there was a third season, and I will pass on that one because I don't see it getting better. I tried to watch season two till the end but because I fell asleep a lot during some episodes, and that I couldn't even bother to rewind the story, I just gave up on it one episode before the season's finale. Barbara Sukowa is extremely annoying to watch, and Kirk Acevedo has also his moments where you wish he would just die. And then there are also a couple actors that are just not good enough in this show. The amount of ridiculous things they come up with is quite fascinating, The Red Forest, The Witness, The Sisters, and so much more. And they obviously want to milk this story as much as possible. The constant jumping in time (like 6 or 7 times per episode) is getting boring and confusing. In the series though the further you get into the story the more you get annoyed. It's very hard too understand though, also like the movie, but I remembered that in the movie I thought you got plenty of explanations to have a good movie in the end. The first season I would give it a seven, because it's all new, you don't know what to expect yet, and it is mysterious like the movie was. It takes away the intensity.īecause I liked the movie and because I read on here that a lot of reviewers thought this was the best show ever I thought it would be a good idea watching 12 Monkeys. It is the stakes and the sauce of storytelling. The more pressing issue is the lack of permanent deaths. Even the characters don't fully understand their own plans. The complicated intertwining story is almost forgivable since one can simply stop trying to keep track of the plot. It gets too convoluted and nobody is ever truly dead. There is an issue with time travel that is similar to the later sequels to the Terminator franchise. Hampshire is a fun replacement for that role. This is an interesting Syfy series based on a reboot of the great Terry Gilliam movie. He meets Leland's disturbed daughter Jennifer (Emily Hampshire) and a secret temporal conspiracy group known as the Army of the 12 Monkeys. Cassandra Railly (Amanda Schull) in a mission to kill Leland Goines who they suspect as the cause of the outbreak. Katarina Jones (Barbara Sukowa) uses a time travel machine to send Cole back to stop the plague. James Cole (Aaron Stanford) and José Ramse (Kirk Acevedo) are survivors of a worldwide viral pandemic.
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