I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Truly Dreadful Film

Surprisingly incoherent and boring

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

This show was so well-written. Great characters; great casting; great point of view set up for the viewer. The watcher has the experience of knowing with the main character what's really going on, yet no one believing him. Plus, it's just simply exciting. I found myself (my wife and I watched this live, from episode one to the end) tense (in a good way) and sometimes literally on the edge of my couch seat during and often at the end of each show. The story arc is fantastic. So, so tragic this show was canceled during its first season, going till only February or early March. However, the writers were told ahead of time the show was being canceled, so they adjusted to bring the season/series to a fantastic conclusion--one of the best finales of TV shows I've seen (which usually do terrible finales). I often had chills watching this (not from things being scary; just from the excitement of what was happening in the episode). It seemed like in the five years during which this show aired, there were 3-5 brilliant shows we watched that got the hatchet. I think execs are less hyperactively canceling good shows now. If you can get a hold of this, watch it. It's so fantastic. And it's only, what, 9-12 episodes? Not a big commitment. Oh, lastly, it takes place in San Francisco, which is a beautiful and different backdrop for a show. Even the opening of this show is great--on the level of "Vikings," if you know that opening.

Journeyman was one of the best new shows I've seen in a LONG while. I enjoy Chuck (from the new show crop that season), but it can't touch the quality of this show. It's an insult to the loyal fans to pull the plug on such a great show and then expect to capitalize on our loyalty by releasing it as a DVD. Don't insult us by ripping such a great plot from our very hands and then hoping to console us by taking our money on reruns.From the very beginning, I worried this would be a Quantum Leap rip off. However, they took the concept of "time travel" to a whole, new level. Kevin McKidd and his acting skills made such a fan out of me. Each week, you just wonder what's happening next while you sat on the edge of your seat. Furthermore, I loved how they teased us with clues to the answers around how his character ended up in such a "predicament." The support cast was wonderful too. It's just a shame that shows such as American Idol, So You Think You Can Dance, Dancing with the Stars can last forever, yet a show like Journeyman doesn't have a chance. The time a network spends revamping TRUE classic TV such as Bionic Woman or Knight Rider, they could invest money in making a fresh new show even better. I realize it's all about the all, mighty dollar. However, I really wished they had given this one a chance and perhaps given it a better time slot so many, more people could enjoy this show.I will make one comment for the creative genius of Kevin Falls. I loved how he kept viewers in the loop of the fate of this show. I also appreciated how he and his wonderful staff gave this show a proper ending. For those of you who may have watched the CBS show, Vanished, you can understand how sad it was to watch a show with great potential go to waste when the creators realized it would be cut. They went on to kill the lead actor (the wonderful Gale Harold) in the middle of the season (OMG, can't imagine losing Kevin McKidd) and left more holes than a slice of Swiss cheese, which lends to a total lack of respect for loyal viewers. So while the show got cancelled, I am really happy they gave us a respectable ending. I've seen the opposite, and man does it hurt!Now, I am unsure who gets the money should Journeyman go to DVD, but I put my bets that NBC is in there somewhere. I simply refuse to give them one red cent. R.I.P Journeyman and Jericho...

Network: NBC; Genre: Sci-Fi Drama; Content Rating: TV-PG (some violence); Perspective: Contemporary (star range: 1 - 4); Seasons Reviewed: series (1 season) Dan Vasser (Kevin McKidd) one day at random and without explanation finds himself beamed away from his wife (Gretchen Egolf), son and newspaper job and flung back in time. He soon realizes that these random wormholes are taking him back to "track" and change the life of someone at different years of their lives. With his wife confused and abandoned and his job suffering, the only one he can turn to is his ex-wife, thought to have died in a plane crash but in reality was herself beamed into a past of her own.The self-contained mystery that unfolds each week on creator Kevin Falls'time travel drama is the least of it's worries. Some of the stories are quite clever such as Dan zipping back to the childhood of a man who is trying to kill him or when he leaves a digital camera in the past which leads to advances in technology and a shocking life-altering time rift.But the show strangles itself at every turn by the nonsensical set-up of it's own premise. It's not quite clear who "Journeyman" is playing to or what it wants to be. It is equal parts warmed-over crime series, half-assed domestic drama and shallow sci-fi series. Each element fights for screen time, cutting into each other element and keeping any of it from fully realizing.Though it is a subject that sends every internet geek up to the TV scrutinizing for plot holes, the show has some good fun with the time travel premise. Little, real stuff like Dan being beamed back to a key party and being riveted to seeing Richard Nixon's resignation speech live on TV. One of the fun things about a show with this premise is following and playing with the rules of it's universe. Look at a Bryan Fuller show like "Pushing Daisies" or "Dead Like Me". Rules and structure to play with and explore. "Journeyman's" universe has no rules. The time travel just happens to Dan, putting our main character constantly on a defensive reacting to his environment."Journeyman" has got one of those beautiful opening title sequences that suggests it is in for the long haul. If only the rest of the show were as well crafted. There is a dreariness and disinterest in the production. The show doesn't seem to know the possibilities of it's own premise, instead the time-travel gimmick again (like the New Orleans setting of this season's "K-Ville") just seems like yet another way for network TV to get at the same crime stories that it usually loves to roll out on the assembly line with such ease. "Journeyman's" potential is barely tapped before characters and story lines start creeping at odds with it (a rogue FBI agent who thinks he is a terrorist, Dan's brother who thinks he's on drugs).Add on top of that an absolutely wooden performance from McKidd that cripples the series in an area where it needs some life and some character. I'm not going to follow a hero, through time or otherwise, if I can't care or feel for him in some way.Then it ends, in the final episode we get a hint of that potential being cracked open, of our hero getting a hold of his powers, of a clever explanation for how it all works and worked in the past. And with that a burst of a vision to come, the show was canceled. How frustrating. * * / 4

No Spoilers Here This was a great series. All of the actors did an A+ job, every moment was driving, and also, McKidd is great. You have to see each episode to understand what's going on... considering that the end explains the beginning. It also helps to not compare this to other shows such as Quantum Leap, Sliders, or even Time Trax, being that this is a very different show. Unlike the others; this one has a guy going back in time at random for reasons always vague at first. Dan (McKidd) and his supposed diseased lover figures out each quest together while Dan continues to keep his family in one piece. Totally worth seeing!