![]() ![]() Its appeal comes partially from those references, but also from the story’s potential (both in its charm and its soapy portends). Crucially, the show is ultimately more than the sum of its scrunchies, beepers and AOL accounts. ![]() There’s still plenty of room for Hindsight to grow, and plenty of reasons to stick around for it to happen. Instead, show creator Emily Fox‘s ( Jane by Design) script gives him surprising depth, which is helped along by Horner’s sincere and wounded, yet innocently hopeful, approach (despite a budding love triangle involving Becca’s old friend Andy, played by Nick Clifford). Sean is a brawny Australian artist, and the kind of (initially) roughly sketched personality that could easily devolve into caricature. ![]() The surprising standout, though, is Becca’s first husband, Sean ( Craig Horner), who is not reduced to a footnote when she decides to change her path the second time around. (The handsome Xavier would have made a refreshing love interest.) She meets the ageless and cryptic Xavier ( Collins Pennie) in both timelines, but the convention feels hokey and as outdated as Becca’s beeper. There is also the unfortunate use of the “magical black man” trope when it comes to the tenuous device of Becca’s time travel. More unfortunately, he and Ramsey’s Becca have more chemistry with each other than they do with anyone else. And Jamie ( John Patrick Amedori), Becca’s bedroom-eyed brother, also seems more like an idea than a character. Becca’s confidante, Lolly ( Sarah Goldberg) feels stuck in “kooky best friend devoted entirely to Becca” mode, even though Goldberg manages to be extremely charming in it. Yet even those who allow themselves to be swept up in the show’s nostalgia won’t be able to ignore its (fixable) hiccups. Her attempts to avoid certain known outcomes only create other complex problems, but her fortune-telling hubris is rarely allowed to save her from these new mistakes (which creates distance from the time-travel storyline - another good thing). #HINDSIGHT TV SERIES SERIES#The catalyst for the series is that while Becca knows things have to change, she’s not quite sure how. Read more Viacom Expands Middle East Presence With Three Channel Launchesīeing gifted with knowledge of how the future turns out (at least regarding her ill-fated relationships, the dissolution of her parents’ marriage, as well as the loss of a friendship and the knowledge that Patrick Dempsey does get hot) has its limits for Becca, though, and that’s a good thing. ![]()
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