

“ makes Jake Epping seem like a completely irresponsible time traveler. And check out some highlights from the discussion below. Listen to our complete interview with Matt London, Chris Cevasco, and Jordan Hamessley London in Episode 198 of Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy (above). “I’m really intrigued by this kind of television, and I would love, love, love to see more of it, because I thought it was executed very well.” “I was captivated by the structure of it, the way the story was told,” he says. Still, London says the show is definitely worth watching. “It seemed like they were trying to feed you some sort of explanation, but it felt like it hadn’t been thought out very well.” “It was just word soup, none of it meant anything,” he says. He says the show suffers from the opposite problem, that the explanation it offers was too brief and nonsensical. Author Chris Cevasco loved the novel 11/22/63, but felt that the book went too far in trying to explain the time travel. It’s so strange, it must have relevance.’ And then for it to be just a thing made it even more odd.”Īnd don’t expect the show’s many time travel mysteries to make sense either. “Because on some level I was like, ‘This must be important.


“I didn’t know what I was supposed to think,” she says. Book editor Jordan Hamessley London actually paused the show and turned to the Internet in search of an explanation. In one scene we learn that a character harbors a dark secret involving sex and a clothespin, but no further details are provided. The show’s main weakness is that far too many moments are puzzling or inexplicable. “The way they act and the way they talk, the costumes and the sets and everything, all just had a lot of authority.” “The characters in the ’60s feel like characters of their time,” says Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy host David Barr Kirtley. The show also features strong performances, which really help to recapture the feel of an earlier era.
