Hindsight... Timetravel for Girls?

[Owain Taggart]

Yeah, just wondering. I knew there had been talks of something early on even before Hindsight had been announced, though I don't know if it ever got off the ground. I know ABC was originally working on something. And I think that might be partly why a lot of people online are jumping onto it being connected to Erica in some way, even if it technically isn't. Seems like a lot of people are willing to take it as being a spiritual successor, and that's just from browsing Google.

And even still if there's no official connection, there's enough there to get the feeling there were likely fans in the production team, and if that's the case, it's one thing to be flattered about, in that they took some of the best things about one of our best shows. I still wish Erica had more of an audience.

Speaking of Wikis, anyone can edit them, so anything there could have purely been assumptions from the beginning and not based on any official words, so who knows what the deal is.

But anyway, enough about that, I didn't want to derail the thread. Haven't seen it yet, but I'll keep an eye out on it. Maybe it will eventually appear on Netflix.

 

[The Master of Tarquin Hill]

Sixty minute drama on VH1 about feelings.

Girl feelings.

 

[intrinsical]

I'm just curious. Is anyone still watching this?

 

[SAndrews10]

My wife and I still are. The nostalgia just brings me right back to the time period. It's ok, light show to watch before bed after watching something disturbing like Criminal Minds.

 

[Guy Gardener]

If I personally kept every thread I started alive, this BBS would be nothing but me talking to myself.

Lollie is lovely, and Bekka killed her future boyfriend this week.

Map out your future with a corpse honey.

Of course, we don't know for sure that he's dead, maybe he's just going to lose a couple limbs?

 

[Pondwater]

I'm just curious. Is anyone still watching this?

I am too.

Last night's episode was directed by Jonathan Frakes.

 

[JWPlatt]

...all "Becca" can think about is if she should marry the same disastrous man again, or if she can use all her privileged future foreknowledge to CHANGE HIM so that this time around, they do have a perfect marriage.

I thought, especially with the bolded caps, that you were going to discuss or critique the real cliche of women changing men and the wisdom of the attempt - to wit, none.

So I'm disappointed. Why the bold caps? And for those who haven't seen it, how did that work out for her?

 

[Guy Gardener]

Teach a bloke to fish. You know what "change him" means. You know an hours worth of arguments back and forth that result from any phrase similar to "I can change him" because you have been paying attention to the world for the last 30 years. Even the writers included the line especially because it is a pitfall women fall into quite often, having to decide to make the man they want rather than enjoy the man they have. A pitfall that Bekka had to overcome to prove that she is not a monster.

As to your other question, I shouldn't spoil the balls of the first episode, when it's still within your power to watch the first episode with relative ease.

Spoiler

She's in her dress, in the church, and the priest asks the bride if she takes this man, which is when Bekka picks up her trail, apologises and runs out of the church, making a spectacle.

 

[Crusher Disciple]

This show is directly marketed for my demographic, but I finally found it so boring that I turned off the second episode. Then I deleted the season pass.

I can't figure out where it's trying to go, is she determined to make different choices, or just make the same ones in a different order? Zzzzzzzzzz......

 

[Guy Gardener]

Hindsight is much duller than it has to be, but I'm fine with that for a couple seasons.

Isn't the lead a dead ringer for Christina Applegate, and considering the time period, and the wardrobe from that time period, doesn't that make Laura Ramsey a dead wringer for Kelly Bundy?

 

[intrinsical]

After 5 episodes with nothing resolved, I agree that its starting to feel a little tedious. They really need to either inject more humor and fun, or start resolving at least one hanging thread soon. At this rate, its never going to be as good as Being Erica.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Season One just finished after ten episodes, with no idea about renewal.

It was mostly about relationships and deceit, which I eventually began to care about that I medically need to see conclusions to.

Turned out that there was also a companion webseries all along about the video store guy's cable access show that doesn't look completely scripted.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQ0Ox3TviFqVLQtWK6sUywrwG3H0tCcDh

I loved in the final episode when Lollie said "You've changed the past too much, you don't know what's going to happen any more, so you can just shut up!"

Hindsight is not awful, but my thread title here holds true.

Hmmm.

(edit)

I was thinking yesterday that it might be getting harder recently because my sanity is slipping or I might be getting more imbalanced. Doubt is good. Doubt stops one from knowing that they can fly, if only they can just find a building tall enough.

Turns out that not only am I exactly the same, but I'm even as equally sexist as I have always been.

Observe from three years ago

More Girly Time travel

I am a rock!

I bring up (The web series) Dating Advice from my Future Self because they made a second season a year ago that I was completely unaware of, while most of you were probably unaware that either series existed, or like poor Intrinsical who wanted to watch season one but Facebook shut him out. A further point is that if you are lost now that Hindsight is over, there's more of the same secreted in the not too distant past.

Season 1.

Season 2.

Dating Advice from my Future Self makes Hindsight look like a Drag Queen changing a tire (I'm not saying that a Drag Queen can't or won't change a tire, just that they'd get glitter on every####ing while they're doing it. Yeah, it's the ball gown covered in grease that's funny not per say anyone's blurred sexuality.).

 

[Owain Taggart]

Sounds like it's been quite a bit more simplistic than Being Erica ever was. What I liked about Being Erica was that the time-travel wasn't just a gimmick, but a vehicle into philosphical ponderings, and not as an excuse for lazy writing.

 

[Sto-Vo-Kory]

I enjoyed this show.

While I focused my attention on what '90s song was being played in the background, I accidentally grew fond of Becca, Lolly, and Becca's brother and started to care about the stories.

I'll be genuinely bummed if this show doesn't return.

 

[SAndrews10]

My wife and I enjoyed this a lot. It was an entertaining hour, full of nostalgia and characters and situations we grew to care about. And why am I referring to this show in the past tense? That's not good.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Renewed!

http://www.ismyshowcancelled.com/article/2015-03-16/vh1-renews-hindsight/

Oh.

Caroline form the Vampire Diaries, the blonde one with OCD, is the "star" of Dating Advice from my Future Self season 2, which is something I should have mentioned a while back, but no one cares so it doesn't matter.

There's another new comedy out soon that I found to be remarkably similar to Hindsight even though it doesn't involve any timetravel. Sutton Foster (from Bun Heads) is 40, just got divorced, about to lose her house and can't find a job. Push comes to shove, and she adjusts her resume to say that she is actually 26, and swiftly collects a new job as an assistant at a publishing house where she has to constantly maintain the illusion that she is 14 years younger than she really is (A reverse Don't Tell Mom the Baby Sitters Dead.), and knowing everything (Music, gossip, fashion and technology) a 26 year old in 2015 knows, while not knowing/feeling everying that a 40 year old should or does.

Younger

 

[Owain Taggart]

She must be a young looking 40yr old if she hopes nobody would notice. They cast 30 yr olds as teenagers all the time, sometimes it sticks out, sometimes not, but this seems to be stretching the concept a bit. Seems like it would require quite a bit of suspension of disbelief for the viewer.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Sutton Foster is an awkward kind of hot, despite being 40 in real life, but she also spent 20 years on Broadway as a dancer (becoming a relative Star by Broadway standards.), so she has a dancers body, what ever that means. Bunheads where I fell in love with the woman as an actress was more Gilmore Girls (because both shows were produced by Amy Sherman-Palladino) with Sutton in the quirky Heather Graham role.

Lets explain my use of "girl"

A girl is an unformed, often child version of an actual woman. Calling a woman a girl is an insult even when it's a truthful statement, and calling a girl a woman is just something a perv does when he's trawling for jailbait.

2 somewhat different animals.

Recently there has been a lot of Time travel TV aimed at Girls and Women.

Being Erica. (Barely Womany.)

Continuum. (Extremely Womany)

Dating advice from my Teenage Self. (So girly)

Outlander (40 year old virgin womanly.)

Hindsight. (Girly.)



No, I'm not counting movies, so shut up about you know what.

Although have you noticed that Rachel McAddams has played A Time Travellers Wifes in three different movies about Time Travellers with wives?

(Midnight in Paris, About Time, and that other one, you know that one about a wife married to a time traveller.)

 

[Guy Gardener]

Well.

Honest to god Time Travel for Girls, without being condescending or sexist in the slightest.

Best Friends Whenever

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZnhQOPO3J8[/yt]

New 30 minute live action scifi Disney sitcom starring smart, quippy and sassy 12 year old best friends who time travel using the power of hugs. Episode one was about boy troubles and the teetering fate of their on going friendship after they accidentally Ghost of Christmas Future themselves, but we did get a small glimpse of a darkest timeline that must be avoided. Fingers crossed.

Made with 12 year olds, for 12 year olds, but I did laugh a couple times.

Disney.

Time Travel for Girls.

 

[Commander Richard]

I binge-watched the entire first season in 2 or 3 days and loved it quite a bit. The opportunity to go back and redo your younger days is a compelling one, something I've even imagined. I'd probably go back to the same year too, give or take. I can see why it has a cult following. I was also impressed with how they managed to use a single season to deal with an event in Becca's life that didn't originally happen until 7 years later. I also like how they made her ex-fiancé into a real character instead of a himbo who was all wrong for her.

Comparrisons have been made to Being Erica. The shows are similar but Becca's situation seems to mirror that of Kai's. I like 'em both and wouldn't think of this one as a knockoff. Looking forward to season 2. The show runner says that things will get weird. I hope they don't get too weird, I like the simple premise of just reliving your younger years but I guess they'll have to do something if they want to cover a 20-year span in less than 20 seasons and possibly avoid 9/11 (I wonder what they plan to do there).

And yes, Laura Ramsey does look a lot like Christina Applegate.