I just finished watching the third and final season of "Travelers" on Netflix. I don't know where it originated - network TV, cable, or whatever - but I saw it on Netflix.
While not technically a mini-series, it was apparently scripted for three seasons and out, and I thought it was excellent.
The scenario is this: Four hundred years from now, the situation on earth is AFU, due to climate change and its ramifications, a meteor hitting the earty that wiped out billions of people and so on. The people of that time are led by an AI entity whom they refer to as The Director. The Director sends teams of five specialists to the 21st Century to try to straighten out the things that have gone wrong, while remaining completely incognito in the present time.
The Travelers take over the bodies of people the moment before they are known to have died. They survive the lethal event and move on with those lives - jobs, marriages, etc - retaining just a bit of the "hosts" personal knowledge. If you recall the old series Quantum Leap, it works pretty much the same way.
In addition to their challenges in changing history, it turns out in Season 2 that another faction of people from the future are sending teams to try to thwart our guys, blah, blah, blah.
The series contains engaging characters, eye candy, and very interesting plots, episode by episode. And it actually ends in a way that is consistent with how the story played out.
My personal fave was the character, Marcie, played by MacKenzie Porter, who is not only beautiful and an excellent actress, but is also a fabulous Canadian "Country"music artist. How they got so much pulchritude and so much talent into one human I don't know, but there she is.
While not technically a mini-series, it was apparently scripted for three seasons and out, and I thought it was excellent.
The scenario is this: Four hundred years from now, the situation on earth is AFU, due to climate change and its ramifications, a meteor hitting the earty that wiped out billions of people and so on. The people of that time are led by an AI entity whom they refer to as The Director. The Director sends teams of five specialists to the 21st Century to try to straighten out the things that have gone wrong, while remaining completely incognito in the present time.
The Travelers take over the bodies of people the moment before they are known to have died. They survive the lethal event and move on with those lives - jobs, marriages, etc - retaining just a bit of the "hosts" personal knowledge. If you recall the old series Quantum Leap, it works pretty much the same way.
In addition to their challenges in changing history, it turns out in Season 2 that another faction of people from the future are sending teams to try to thwart our guys, blah, blah, blah.
The series contains engaging characters, eye candy, and very interesting plots, episode by episode. And it actually ends in a way that is consistent with how the story played out.
My personal fave was the character, Marcie, played by MacKenzie Porter, who is not only beautiful and an excellent actress, but is also a fabulous Canadian "Country"music artist. How they got so much pulchritude and so much talent into one human I don't know, but there she is.
