{"id":762095,"date":"2022-05-15T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/?p=762095"},"modified":"2023-10-10T05:57:50","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T09:57:50","slug":"the-time-travelers-wife-review-steven-moffat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/tv\/the-time-travelers-wife-review-steven-moffat\/","title":{"rendered":"The Time Traveler’s Wife Review: Steven Moffat Drama Gives Us Another Girl Who Waited"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/svg>Warning: this Review contains the time traveler’s wife <\/em>spoilers.<\/strong><\/p>

The Time Traveler’s Wife Episode 1 Review<\/h2>

The Time Traveler’s Wife<\/em><\/strong>, HBO’s new miniseries adaptation based on Audrey Niffenegger’s novel of the same name, is taking full advantage of the extended time serialized television offers in regards to telling a story involving multiple timelines. The opening episode assumes viewers have not read the novel or seen the previous movie adaptation, but it makes the jumps in time easier to follow if you have the background of either or both. This miniseries is not for people who have already made their mind up to hate the premise but it’s for the readers of the novel who wanted more character development from the movie. <\/p>

Henry DeTamble (Theo James<\/a>) is the time traveler in the title. His powers of time travel are limited to his actual lifespan, give or take a few years. Henry also can’t control when he does travel forward or back and disappears anywhere from minutes to months at a time. When he travels he appears naked and often has to steal clothes and supplies to survive until he returns to his current timeline. Clare Abshire (Rose Leslie<\/a>) is the wife in the title. Clare doesn’t have powers so she sees Henry as an older man in her past and as a younger man in her present life. She knows some parts of Henry’s story but not how her own future will unfold. The friendship and\/or romantic bond between them is what drives the story versus exploring other worlds or altering history. <\/p>\n\t\r\n\n\t\t