‘Quantum Leap’ Review: NBC Reboot Gets Off to Shaky Start, but Has Promise
19.09.2022 - 18:15
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“Quantum Leap” has entered the “Peak TV” era of television, but while the new NBC reboot gets off to a shaky start, there’s reason to believe this new version is still worthwhile.Airing from 1989 to 1993, NBC’s original “Quantum Leap,” starred Scott Bakula as Dr. Sam Beckett, a scientist who has invented time travel (via his secret project, Project Quantum Leap) and ends up getting trapped in time as a result of it.
Sam’s particular brand of time traveling involved “leaping” into the bodies of various people through time and having to right certain wrongs throughout history before he could leap into the next. During Sam’s adventures, he would be aided by Al (Dean Stockwell), a colleague (who, to Sam, appeared as a hologram only he could see) who provided him with certain answers—courtesy of Ziggy, the Project Quantum Leap supercomputer—about the people Sam would be inhabiting and helping.It was a high-concept series that provided a lot of questions, but given the era of television, wasn’t too concerned with providing a lot of answers.
Its episodic nature meant that you could almost always just pop on a random episode of “Quantum Leap” and dive in with little confusion. No need to worry about knowing the backstory on a character Sam would leap into, as Sam would often be learning about that person at the same time as the audience.So naturally, “Quantum Leap” was the type of old school series absolutely primed for a present day reboot or reimagining or whatever you want to call it.
The new series is set 30 years after Sam Beckett’s disappearance, and it makes very clear that even with new characters to follow, it’s following up on the story provided in the original series, not undoing or redoing it. The new “Quantum Leap”
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