I went last year. I’m not a Harry Potter fan but my ten year old is - she wasn’t with me (long story, I’m from the UK so it wasn’t practical!) but I made sure to take lots of pictures for her. I wish it had meant something to me but for non Potter fans it’s pretty and so detailed, so I really felt envious for those…

12 Monkeys has been my current favourite show ever since I started watching it on the back of io9's fab recaps for S1. Thank you for continuing to give it at least some publicity!

Personally as one of *those* fans whose greatest joy was dissecting each episode week by week and speculating about what might happen, when…

He’s just there to sing “Hey Jude” at the end and over the closing credits when everyone hugs when they’ve saved the day.

British readers will understand the full horror of this ubiquity.

Completely agree. I manage 1 or 2 episodes a night of anything, maybe on a Saturday night I’ll manage 3. When stuff is released in one big drop, it just means I can’t read any discussions and have to avoid all mention of it until it’s over. It’s why I’m still sulking over the 12 Monkeys 10 episodes in 3 nights thing…

Time travel is my favourite genre, and Travelers didn’t disappoint. I count any show as a win when I am surprised by developments, and can’t always predict them (unlike with, say, Timeless) and on that front, Timeless scores. The characters are nicely complex as well, you don’t always know what they’re going to do,…

Probably because there was so little word of mouth.. and there was so little word of mouth because it was dire! I saw the pilot, and even though it’s one of my favourite topics, it was basically a cliched, confused mess.

You did better than me. Usually I’ll give something more than the pilot when it has one of my favourite premises, but it was so all over the place, I just couldn’t face another. It couldn’t decide if it was satire, or serious - and if it was serious, it was preposterous!

Plus the characters were VERY annoying. Sigh.

Stil…

Oh, the irony.. given us in the UK can’t do the same back!

I agree.. I feel very “meh” about the casting for Holden too. The book one is much more preferable, and whilst the TV one isn’t bad in his own right, it doesn’t feel like it’s *the* Holden and I think that’s the problem. It’s not even the acting, it just doesn’t feel like the character.

It’s like The Expanse minus…

I figure they’ve not let us down so far.. if anyone can pull off some of the things that sound a bit shark-jumpy to me, that writing team can. Consistently stellar throughout both seasons so far and rarely fully predictable.

And if they can’t pull it off.. well, it was fun while it lasted!

It starts out a bit slow, not everyone liked the direction it took (or the way some of the characters appeared to go) at the start of S2, but it repaid that in full and then some with the final third. And there were some seriously standout episodes before that too. There were good reasons for the developments in the…

I have io9 to thank for introducing me to 12 Monkeys. Last year I had it on my DVR but like so many things, much time went past and I wasn’t sure if I was going to bother getting around to watching it. Yet another knock off of a classic film - how could it possibly succeed?

But the reviews on here were so positive and…

I already got spoiled long before I got to io9 by a Google Now headline - I stay off my usual TV websites for obvious reasons but it really grates when I got caught accidentally by Google Now. I wasn’t even deliberately looking at it, I was planning my journey to work from that page, and scrolled down without…

It amuses me that one or two of the episodes were written by the writers behind 12 Monkeys given most of the show was so.. ARGH. It could have been so good but the focus was just completely on the wrong things. Like the teenagers and their tedious relationships.

It’s no surprise the 12M writers wrote the finale which…

I’m in the UK and Amazon Prime streaming is available here. We also have Netflix and Hulu streaming. We get Mr Robot and Outlander through Amazon, saves having to torrent it. Because with everything else, well, yeah.

I’d far rather pay but there’s no way of paying for anything. I don’t even mind paying a bit per…

Glad to see a trailer this far out from the air date! January can’t come soon enough. Along with the next book!

As it’s Syfy behind it, the parent company also owns Hulu, so that’s why. All their series have this problem :-( Nobody wants to pay per episode, and not everyone can watch live.

They would do so much better if they would only let them be streamed as part of a package, like Outlander, Mr Robot etc. In fact Mr Robot is…

If they don’t renew 12 Monkeys and given they have greenlit this, I fear Syfy’s apparently impressive revival will have taken a nosedive before it even got started. They seem to actively WANT to be known for shite, hate-watch TV, rather than their glory days of BSG and smart SciFi which was where it looked like they…

Nice article, thank you!

I watch all four shows, and I wouldn’t have watched the other three had I not been drawn back to Syfy with 12 Monkeys. I was immediately impressed with how real the female characters were - no tropes for a change. There’s some people who are turned off by the fact the female characters don’t…

Actually, there’s Terry the Tortoise in 12 Monkeys. He’s already been in several episodes, he’s definitely recurring. At least I think he’s a tortoise. He might be a turtle. Nobody seems to know for sure.