![]() Which is fine VH1 already knows there's a solid audience for decades-of-recent-yore wistfulness, and in some ways, Hindsight can be seen as another attempt by VH1 to relive its own '90s "Music First" heydey. So far, it's unclear whether the show is interested in going beyond the time-travel-rom-com formula hopefully it does.Ĭonsidering its network, Hindsight may just be content to have fun with '90s sentimentality laced with vaguely philosophical hypotheticals. Would not watch that movie.”) Since Hindsight is traveling such a well-worn narrative path, almost any departure from the expected, whether tonal or plot-related, feels refreshing. (As Lolly says to Becca, who wonders aloud if she's back in 1995 to stand up to her terrible boss: “Time travel? To fix your career? Snore. Becca's quasi-deterministic ruminations on why this happened to her sometimes go on for too long, and the show has a penchant for exposition in the form of voiceovers or hackneyed plot devices like bathroom eavesdroppingįortunately, Hindsight has just enough self-awareness to add a sobering degree of cynicism to a story that could otherwise get totally lost in the clouds. And it's disappointing when the show resorts to the same grab-bag full of platitudinous one-liners that nearly all movies or shows about age-changing time travel inevitably lean on. Watching characters grapple with or try to explain the frustrating implausibilities of time traveling is funny maybe the first time around, but it quickly gets old. Now for the bad: In some ways, the time-traveling plot is the show's weakest point-a neat way to get back to the '90s, but also an unnecessarily cumbersome one. It's a show that, if the entire first season were to drop on Netflix, would make for great, lazy binge-watching material. Ramsey and Goldberg shine as Becca and Lolly, and their friendship is fun, endearing, and a good vehicle for a bit of " modern female escapism" (even if their pairing isn't as raucously hilarious as the BFF-ship of Broad City's Ilana and Abbi). Hackneyed plot aside for a moment, Hindsight is a fun, light-hearted watch whose first two episodes are already superior to a lot of current TV comedies. More importantly, she's no longer estranged from her erratic but lovable best friend Lolly (Sarah Goldberg), nor has she married her first smoking-hot Australian fiancee, which prompts her to think that maybe she's traveled back in time to make better choices in work, love, and life. It's 1995, Ace of Base is playing, and Becca's iPhone has been replaced with a pager. And then Barry came through, and my jaw was on the floor.Hindsight is a rom-com born out of the questions of "What if?" and "Remember when?" The main character, Becca, is a 40-something who, in the midst of a present-day crisis, inexplicably finds herself as a 23-year-old again (She's played by 32-year-old Laura Ramsey, perhaps best known for her role as Don Draper's Palm Springs fling Joy on Mad Men). ![]() Yeah, it all would’ve been really fun.”īut there was a tiny silver lining to Hindsight‘s cancellation, Goldberg remembers: VH1 had to pay the cast and crew for a full season of television, since they pulled the plug so late in the process, so “for the first time in my career, I had a savings account and could be a little bit choosy and discerning about work.” And that helped put her in a position to land the role that now has her on the shortlist for an Emmy: “In a roundabout way, it did lead to Barry, because I was able to take six months and wait for a really great script, which I hadn’t been able to do previously. So she was going to go back to just before that moment to try to save Jamie.” In this new alternate timeline, though, Becca and Lolly were no longer friends, “so she has to get Becca back first before she can save Jamie. Lolly saw in the late ’90s when his drug addiction got out of control, and she felt there was one moment that what she did was the catalyst for his path down that road. Goldberg did get an early peek at the Season 2 scripts we never got to see, though, and reveals what was on tap for Becca and Lolly: “They were going to end up back in the future, but Jamie was really in a bad state. We’d become a little family… we had such a good time regressing and going back to the ’90s.” Our sets were literally on the road from Atlanta to Los Angeles,” where Season 2 was set to film. ![]() “For nearly a year, we had a Season 2 pickup, and I think it was about six weeks before shooting. “That was kind of like your actor’s nightmare,” she recalls, adding that the show was “very far along” in pre-production on Season 2 when the ax fell. ![]() TV's One-Hit Wonders: The Passage, Selfie, The Kids Are Alright and 40+ More Shows That Left Too Soon Barry's Sarah Goldberg Breaks Down the Epic Season 2 Monologue That Cinched Her Emmy Nomination
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