The Quantum Leap Reboot Is Actually Pretty Good

As someone who spent his formative years of TV viewing in the 1980s I watched the original Quantum Leap when it aired. While I wasn’t a weekly viewer of the show, I enjoyed the concept and watched most episodes weekly and caught the rest in reruns. When I heard a reboot was in the works I had my doubts about watching it. The original show wasn’t part of my fandom in the way Star Trek has been, so I didn’t have a commitment to watching it.

At the time the new show launched I decided to take a look just to see if it was something I could look forward to streaming when there was nothing better on. The first episode did a great job introducing the concept of the show to those who hadn’t watched the original show as well as tying the new show into the lore of the original show. The new show is an evolution of the original Quantum Leap project and the team is aware of what happened in the course of the original project. They know Dr. Sam Beckett never made the leap home (yeah, spoiler). The new mystery involves Dr. Ben Song who used the Quantum Leap accelerator to make an unsanctioned leap. Like Dr. Beckett, he can only make the next leap by fixing what once went wrong.

Essentially, the new show is the same as the old show, updated for modern times and with a shift in focus from Dr. Beckett to the whole Quantum Leap team. There’s much more…