"Timeless" The Miracle of Christmas Part I/II (TV Episode 2018) Poster

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9/10
Nice way to wrap
sscialli21 December 2018
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The producers and NBC, did a nice thing by showing how everything wrapped up and left on a positive note all in time for the Holiday. The cliffhanger of the abrupt end in the previous episode was handled very well. It also left it open to have specials in the future. Good job and thank you from one very happy fan.
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7/10
Glad they came back to end this
Kingslaay5 June 2021
I was really disappointed to hear Timeless got cancelled. An intriguing, intelligent and thought provoking show cancelled. But alas I'm glad they came back to give closure and close out the story. We always knew Wyatt and Lucy were end game. Quite a little decent time travel journey this time. Interesting and you felt how high the stakes were. Thanks for the memories team and glad they got the gang together for one last journey.
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9/10
They got the Band Back Together
ssamnick23 December 2018
This was really a two part episode wrapped up into a show finale movie. Overall, I really liked how they brought everyone back to continue where they left off. It's a great finale to a show that was canceled ahead of its time. Which is the problem for almost all SCI-Fi shows on the major networks. Timeless, had it been on the CW, SYFY, or any other cable network, would be considered a hit and would still be going. There are simply not enough sci-fi interested viewers to sustain shows on the major networks. I was truly hoping it would make the jump to another cable channel but I've not read anything on that. Anyone hear rumors of this?
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10/10
Netflix. Please pick up
CMac201822 December 2018
Love this show. Here's to the Christmas Miracle that Netflix picks it up.
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10/10
10/10 LOVED THIS ENTIRE SERIES
Tigerbai122 December 2018
This 2 hour series finale does terrific job both wrapping things up and yet leaving it open enough if anyone ever wishes to continue to saga. Time travel is one of my favorite genre and this TV show was top notch. It gets my highest rating on drama, syfy, romance, action, thrills, mystery, and comedy. Enjoy
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10/10
Time is time
abdullahalataby20 June 2019
Great Just great And timeless is timeless . . . . .
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10/10
Nice close-out and seemed they still left a door open
MiketheWhistle21 December 2018
First I'm glad they closed it out but it did seem they left open even another ep which I'm sure won't come unless this blows out the ratings.

Most of the ep was given to closing out the show than to be a true ep which might upset some people. If this was an opening or closing of a season, then people would be right, except this is billed as the series finale so this was its mission.

I missed the first 20 min and had to watch it the day after which I mention because there was some plot aspects that I felt lost in but they may be due to how I had to watch it.

Regardless, bringing the show to a conclusion I really liked. But if I asked was the show truly necessary; I 'd have to give that only a 5.
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10/10
Amazing
bourassastephanie27 January 2019
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I needed this more than I ever thought!! This show was way too short lived but this ending gave me the closure I needed. I can now go back and binge watch every episode knowing that there's a happy ending where before this I probably couldn't have watched it again because it would've been to sad. Thank you for allowing this episode to happen. I am eternally greatful. Best show ever!!!
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10/10
The Perfect Endgame
czalewski-549-5005536 January 2019
The perfect way to wrap the whole thing up. Not one single complaint.
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7/10
So many Christmas miracles!
stella_8124 December 2018
All in all yet another enjoyable episode, although it felt from time to time a bit rushed (I guess two hours weren't probably enough) and it got predictable here and there - which is a first for this show. The first half especially had your head spin by the number of flukes and deus ex machina that helped speed the plot. Unlike other reviews I can appreciate the characters arches (come on, we all knew we would get there!) and the moral, although I must say the plot itself wraps its loose ends quite too neatly (is it because it's a Christmas present?); and the unstoppable Rittenhouse machine gets stopped quite too easily. This series had set our expectations on another level.

Now the real Christmas miracle we need is for some other channel to pick up where we left, I'm ready to turn a blind eye on the minutia required to revive the story.
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10/10
I wish there was more ************
mshigeoka1 May 2021
I really enjoyed this series. I would have given it more stars if I could of. Great writing and superb acting. I became invested in each character.
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7/10
Good but imperfect.
DaggerSpawn25 December 2018
It really really bothered me when in the second half Wyatt went out of character. His job from the very beginning of the show was to keep people ON the mission, not doing nonsense when they tell him "let's go do some nonsense!" I did like the last part.
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2/10
Happy they finished it, but was tied up poorly
charlespenner23 December 2018
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I'm was happy to hear they decided to make this 2hr Series Finale, but after watching and thinking about it, I think they changed the original ending so that they could fit things into 2hrs, so things were too rushed to make a great overall episode. Overall this series was a 10 for me!!

Now here is the funny part, anyone that wanted Lucy and Wyatt to get together will think this was a 10/10 and anyone that wanted Lucy and Flynn to hook up will think it was a 1/10. But I don't think it deserved either a 10 or a 1 if you look at the episode as a whole compared to the series; and NOT at your preference for who hooked up with whom. (or who with who, or whom with...)

I think the original plan was for Lucy and Flynn, but they weren't far enough into their relationship to get them getting together in 2hrs (and save Rufus) So to save time and end the story they killed Flynn off.

One big letdown for me was Rufus' rescue was undramatic, he just appeared. When they were all arguing about who would go back it was mind-boggling obvious it would be Flynn. And we knew Wyatt's old girlfriend was murdered, so when Flynn went back to "remove" her from the timeline it was very simple and unoriginal. Again I think it was to fit everything in. I'm glad he was saved in the end though.

But my 2/10 was for the episode as a whole, it was very very rushed and I felt some characters seemed off to me. To be honest, when I started to write this I was thinking 5/10 but as I thought about it more, specially the end, I liked it less and less...

The biggest issue was the wrap; it was that Lucy, Wyatt and Rufus did it all to save Lucy, Wyatt and Rufus... at the very end, they chose to let it all happen again the same way it happened the 1st time. Not save Lucy's sister, not save Flynn OR his family. (Not too mention, use Flynn for they're own purposes in the end...)

They just didn't seem like the good guys to me in THIS ending, but I understand they wanted to wrap things up for the fans...
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10/10
Great Finale
messi8605-934-96505512 January 2019
Definitely one of the better series finales to come out in recent years.
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9/10
Good show
leegwann13 August 2019
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I watched the end of season 1 and all the season 2 on Netflix, beacause the french TV wich aired it had not enough viewers. Good show end the end left a door open, beacause it is not sure Emma is dead. But finally it was a good ending.
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10/10
Part 1
serrakiper31 March 2019
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I never fond of history. Just very important dates that effect the worlds history, my country's history and masses. Nearly all the episodes were releated to the usa history. Although I like the show from firsth day to the final. I learn lots of character from the history and little details about them. Than I googled and learn more:) Final part 1 is started a little bit slow. But tension gets higher. Flynn makes big sacrifice but no one solved its consequences before. Rufuss is important member of the life boat. He is not the men at the first season. He always kind, naive and hot hearted. Time by time he gets determined. His relationship with Jiya is always full of love maybe lots of love. Emma is a big, tough problem. How can they solved it?
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6/10
wyatts beard
adamw33224 December 2018
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Really? that's the best a sci-fi series beard you guys have...either let the actor grow it or make it realistic...continuity blunder...
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7/10
Huge feministic vibe over this show...
Since I started to watch this show I noticed very big things. Their chief is a woman and lesbian I might add, and the leadcharacter is a woman. And she in sense nose it all, and quite often finds the solution. Everything is about Lucy. Its a little like Star Trek Discovery where Michael Burham is the most important person in the show.

The the difference though of these two show is, that I actually think they did it good in this Timeless. Lucy do not always saves the day, Wyatt, Rufus and the rest gets to do it too. YOu get to know the people, not like in STD. Even though I do not like feminist shows and it was at times abnoxious to whats. Many times I could tell who of those people who sould save the day, when you learn how this politics works. I could tell how it should end. But despite this. I did enjoy it. Its not the best show, it should have been much better if they left the feminism out of the mix, or maybe use it less. But it is worth a look. This ending though felt a little rushed, but I liked that they tried at least to end the show with a ending, or did they?
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1/10
I timetravelled back to the How I Met Your Mother series finale
TimeToRant21 December 2018
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I need to preface this review by saying I literally made an IMDb account for this review alone... the trainwreck How I Met Your Mother finale didn't even bring me to this point but WOW...

I mean the writers of Timeless clearly took note from the writers of HIMYM... you take a well thought out character with so much depth and an interesting backstory like HIMYM's Barney or Timeless's Flynn and put so much time and intricate detail into crafting a beautiful redemption arc just to throw it in the garbage in like a 5 minute time span during the series finale?! What?!

So much of this finale didn't make any sense... specifically, the ENTIRE series is set on Lucy travelling back in time to give Flynn her journal which gave him ammunition and hope that he would save his family and destroy the people who killed them... but now you're telling me that all this played out like it was just a random woman showed up at a bar at the lowest point of his life, gave him a journal, TOLD him it wasn't going to save his family yet he STILL did all that work? I don't buy it for one SECOND. There is literally no motivation for him to do any of the things that start the series....

THEN all this new context makes you realize how the "heroic" Time Team of Lucy, Wyatt, and Rufus that we've grown to love so much just ended up being the real villains the entire time. They spend the entirety of season 1 hindering Flynn from stopping Rittenhouse, the "big bad" that THEY sent him to destroy, then when they slowly (but not even fully) come around to Flynn and realize he's not who they should be fighting, they selfishly let him kill himself without a second thought or #SaveRufus style campaign, all to ensure that THEY get to live long and happy lives? This entire series was started by Lucy, Wyatt, and Rufus literally going into a bar and manipulating a suicidcal, tragically broken man on the run after being framed for murdering his family into essentially becoming a time travelling terrorist locked in loop of death JUST so they can keep their romantic relationships and futures in tact? THIS WHOLE TIME.... They weren't " saving history", they were saving themselves. ABSOLUTE GARBAGE CHARACTERS. This is who I'm supposed to root for?! You built up this entire redemption arc for a character who didn't even need to be redeemed, then he died for this "redemption"... it was all for nothing.

Flynn assassination aside, every character felt so off. Everyone's sole purpose clearly was to somehow justify Lucy/Wyatt ending up together despite how horrible they were for each other throughout season 2 after the Hollywoodland episode... It was so, Yay! We saved Rufus.... oh but only so he can spend the rest of the movie talking about how ~~perfect~~ Wyatt and Lucy were for each other in his timeline so that Lucy can justify forgiving Wyatt for not putting her first... and then Lucy giving up the chance to save her sister.... to not risk losing Wyatt?!! I mean REALLY?!!! It doesn't get much more out of character than that. That was her driving force the entire series AND she's supposed to be this feminist heroine yet she chose this man who hurt her so recently over her family? Dumbfounded. Flynn in Chinatown saying "I don't give a damn about Wyatt, that's not why I'm here" then all of the sudden in the very next episode, DYING only so that Wyatt and Lucy can be together and she'll be "happy" is absolute INSANITY... if you have to kill two characters (Flynn, Jessica) to somehow make a relationship make sense, the relationship CLEARLY isn't working....

I wanted to cut the writers some slack. I understand they had a lot to wrap up in this movie that really wasn't even supposed to happen but my GOD, this was a WRECK. They should've just focused on saving Rufus instead of making this all about somehow making Wyatt and Lucy a justifiable ship like they were in season one... you can't just ignore all of the developments characters have gone through just to satisfy ONE idea that worked in the first season .... I mean truly it all follows HIMYM:

Lucy - Robin.... Flynn - Barney.... Wyatt - Ted... Jessica - Tracy... Rufus - Marshall... Jiya - Lily....

and in order to force the mediocre leading man a happy ending, you gotta ruin everyone else's characters and their developments....
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5/10
Boring
inkeri-orvokki27 May 2019
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It was very rushed, my favorite character Flynn had a very stupid and sudden death. I had zero emotions for any of them, because everything happened too fast. A lot of bad and cheesy irritating moments. It was the worst episode of the series and the only one I didn't like. Also Flynn looks way more appropriate for Lucy as a love choice, than Wyatt, a bitter sweet typical American boy. But that didn't influence the final note of 5/5.
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1/10
The series was good, the finale was everything bad about it
muffinsplanned25 December 2018
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Timeless had good and bad things going for it in plot and characterization. It had a lot of heart, though, that made up for it; and it kept a promise of sci-fi elements. There were themes of fate and choice, weaving in elements of faith and the magical. The finale completely threw that away, ignoring the central themes and plot of the show to push what they claim is a "fan love letter". It's bad.

First off, a love letter to fans shouldn't be a laundry list of rushed things fans want to read in a fic. Fans are notorious for not having the best wishes for canon. Sure, listen to your fans... to a degree, but don't sacrifice the story for them. The result? A finale that was so eager to please fans with shout-outs and things a portion of fandom had asked for, that it had virtually no plot. No, correction: there was no plot to be found.

This could have been a filler episode, because the B-plot had no relevance to the story, and the A-plot read like a soap opera (something you'd turn on CW to enjoy - which no shame to you if you do, but you know what you get there). It sacrificed characters in the most bizarre way, killing others in deeply unsatisfying ways, and ended The Big Bad in a way which left you wondering "why didn't they do this before if it were that easy?"

If you had any hopes of the themes of choice vs fate, god vs magic.... you will be sorely disappointed. If you tuned in for Lyatt, and only Lyatt, well then you will have no issues with this finale.

The two final episodes ended in a way where the hope, integral to the story, had all but been sucked out of you. It's shown that a main character is stuck in a loop which no one is interested in helping him get out of, and the motivations are as out of character and lazy as the entire finale is. The creators and writers behind this supposedly have hope of more of this series but I'm left wondering how that's supposed to be possible, unless this all turned out to be a fever dream from the main character Lucy.
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1/10
Unless you like ONE particular ship, don't bother
raveandrage21 December 2018
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Give this a pass, watch anything else. With rushed scenes, out of character decisions, and complete disregard as to what good TV is, this end "movie" couldn't have sunk any lower than of it had a shovel and started digging If you like watching a strong smart woman remake herself into a weaker self for the sake of a relationahip, retconning events for the sake of a relationship, complete character assassination for the sake of a relationship, and fridging women for the SAKE OF A RELATIONSHIP, then maybe you will like it but I am forgetting this thing exists. Alternate Movie Title: White Man Still the Hero Regardless of Actions. If I could, I would give it 0 stars.
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5/10
Strictly for Fans
Miles-1025 December 2018
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A couple of dozens of references to Christmas in this final, double episode of "Timeless" make me suspect that the producers planned it to be their holiday present to fans. I for one could not imagine ever watching this show at another time of year, but then I have no plan to ever watch it again, at all.

Aside from too many holiday references, there are an awful lot of references to other episodes (by location). I do not even remember the episode set in Hollywood, but from the several references to it, it must have been pivotal. I do remember Chinatown, which is where one of the main characters died. This show reminds me of "Dark Shadows", however, in that characters that die oftentimes do not stay dead.

It is not just the number of self-referential allusions, but the self-consciousness of them all. At one point, the character Rufus stands in for the (fan) audience and confesses that he has always been a Wyatt/Lucy "shipper." Yes, he actually uses the fandom term "shipper", as if this finale were a valentine rather than a Christmas present to fans. Of course, it is also a gift to Rufus/Jiya shippers - fans who want to see Rufus and Jiya get back together despite the metaphysical problem presented by what happened to Rufus in 1888 in a previous episode.

There is every plot cliche including a woman giving birth in part two. (This could refer back to the Christmas theme of part one.)

Have I said that this program is hyper-politically correct? Well, if you did not know or expect that, then you have not been watching the series. When Lucy returns to teaching, she is approached by a male student who wonders why her American history course only covers women. She offhandedly says that she had planned to include some male historical figures in the course but had found that there was not time enough. Don't worry. She gets tenure anyway.

She also tells a female student who ask how she knows details about early twentieth century feminists that "you'll have to trust me." Silly me. I thought historians had to prove their statements. (I realize Lucy can't tell people she is a time traveler, but the least she could do is use her first-hand knowledge of the past to dig up documentary evidence of her personal insights.)

Despite the politically correct aspects of the show, representing as it does different ethnic groups and sexualities in the cast, part two of this send off does mention "blood-thirsty communists". That must be acceptable somehow. These are Chinese and North Korean communists, circa 1950. Why did they choose North Korea? (It has been in the news lately. Perhaps that's why.) In the loose ends department, everybody's destiny is resolved even though a couple of outcomes might be tragic. (Just one or two of them.)

In the best closing of the circle, Lucy and Flynn resolve their affair with Lucy's notebook. (Time paradoxes are, indeed, enjoyed by all.) In the out-and-out villainy department, our heroic team is reduced from fighting a vast conspiracy by a powerful family named Rittenhouse to battling a renegade spin-off of the family that does not seem to be as resilient as the original.

If you have watched every episode up until this finale, you will be hard-pressed to resist watching, but you might be happier doing something else with the two hours.
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1/10
The Wrap-Up Movie Your Parents Warned You About
Twilight-Deviant21 December 2018
I would rather watch irrelevant weather for other states with international friends than this Timeless movie. Much more enjoyable.
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4/10
Almost Mediocre
Easygoer1015 August 2020
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This is filled with pablum. This combination of 2 episodes is mate-oriented trash filler. It's actually really poor writing by the staff of this show. Enough. The ending upon endings are cheesy & full of predictable garbage. I found it extremely bad. Enough already. In a line, what could have been clever became complete & unadulterated filler. At most, watch the pilot & this. Skip the rest; it's simply "filler in a package". Better yet, skip the entire series.
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