Welcome Back to the Twenty First! You Should Catch Up On Travelers Before Season 3 Premiere

If you were what my favorite time travel stories pre-2016< I would tell the following: Back to the Future because it is a perennial classic, the White Tulip episode of Fox’s Fringe, and Syfy’s short-lived Continuum (produced by Canada’s Showcase). All three of the stories hinged on this idea of trying to right a wrong in the past and subsequently discovering their are consequences for changing history, some minor and some major, all of them critical. Yet at the each of the story’s heart, the reason to watch was the beloved cast of characters.

As such post-2016, I can say with the utmost confidence that Netflix’s Travelers is currently my favorite time travel story I’ve seen on the streaming screen thus far and the first three episodes of its third season continues to cement its standing. If you need to be convinced, I recommend Season 2’s 17 Minutes which works as a standalone episode that captures the aesthetic, tone, and brilliance of the series without spoiling too much.

Created by Brad Wright, of Stargate’s universes fame, Travelers follows a team of five operatives sent back to the twenty-first century in order to complete covert missions to surgically correct the horrible future centuries ahead. Caveat 1: they can only send their consciousness back. Caveat 2: the Director, head of the Travelers, can only send their consciousness into bodies of people who were surprised to die based off the public record’s time of death and GPS location. And finally, Caveat 3: Trave…