Warning: contains some episode one plot details.

Televisions love affair with time travel goes back a long way.

McCormack plays FBI agent Grant MacClaren only, not really.

Once the missions are over, what happens then?

MacClaren struggles to keep his home life together with his wife, Kat.

And then theres Marcy, traveler 3569.

When it chooses to go there,Travelersis very good at delivering on the darker side of fiction.

Why should the team trust the faceless Director?

Can they even trust each other?

While the actual gore is kept to a minimum, the sense of threat is palpable.

His old-man-in-a-young-mans-body routine doesnt always hold together throughout the series but its well-served here.

The series isnt without some misfires.

On the whole, though, Wright should be applauded for presenting a genuinely fresh and interesting vision.