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Dec 20, 2018 · The Miracle of Christmas Part I/II. With a little help from their future selves, Lucy and Wyatt, along with the rest of the team, journey to the California Gold Rush and the Korean War's Hungnam evacuation in a daring bid to save Rufus and stop Rittenhouse once and for all.
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- Action, Adventure, Drama
- John F. Showalter
- 2018-12-20
Apr 15, 2018 · The Miracle of Christmas Part I/II In the series finale, Lucy, Wyatt and the Time Team travel to the California Gold Rush and the Korean War in an audacious bid to save Rufus and stop...
Dec 21, 2018 · The Miracle of Christmas Part I/II. In the series finale, Lucy, Wyatt and the Time Team travel to the California Gold Rush and the Korean War in an audacious bid to save Rufus and...
Shortly after returning to 2018, the reunited team must travel to the Hungnam evacuation of Christmas 1950, during the Corean War, where a trap is set by Emma, who bribed a rescue helicopter pilot who needs expensive therapy for his family.
- “When you’re a time traveler, there’s no such thing as goodbye.”
- Timeless: "The Miracle of Christmas" Photos
- Verdict
By Naomi Elias
Updated: May 7, 2020 9:22 pm
Posted: Dec 21, 2018 3:00 am
This review contains spoilers for the series finale of Timeless, titled "The Miracle of Christmas."
Turning any television show into a movie is an enormous undertaking, especially when that series is as complicated as Timeless. “The Miracle of Christmas Part I & II” manages to offer viewers a reminder of just how many lives the Time Team has lived together, and how unbreakable their bond is, in a way that should prove immensely satisfying for longtime fans.
This is particularly evident in the moment when Lucy (Abigail Spencer) flips through in her journal to revisit beloved memorabilia from their past missions: a theater ticket, a pamphlet from their time with the suffragettes in 1919, and a little something from the trip to Hollywoodland where the show’s central ship, Lyatt, set sail.
Soon after Flynn’s sacrifice,the film gets a welcome shot of adrenaline when Rufus busts down the door to rescue the team from a hostage situation. The dire straits the gang finds themselves in puts them just close enough to the edge of hopelessness to ensure that the Rufus reveal feels like the movie’s titular miracle.
Rufus appears, grinning from ear-to-ear, a pop culture reference slipping naturally off his tongue -- “Merry Christmas, ya filthy animals” -- and completely re-energizes the team and the movie. Barrett has played Rufus with such thoughtfulness, warmth, and wit since his first episode, it’s no wonder he quickly became the heart of the show. While there are a handful of nods to the holiday like Agent Christopher (Sakina Jaffrey) attempting to offset the bunker’s drab aesthetic by outfitting it with Christmas lights, the real spirit of Christmas isn’t on display until this moment when the team reunites. And if it feels too easy, that’s because it is. It’s incredibly convenient that a future engineer has configured the Lifeboat for autopilot just in time for Flynn to use it, and that Flynn’s confrontation with Jessica, one of the first hour’s central dramatic points, goes off without much of a hitch. But it’s hard to question it when the Time Team is so desperate for a win (and has limited time to earn one).
It’s also exactly the pickup the movie needs heading into its final hour. Between Jiya (Claudia Doumit) being at once sad and angry about her losing Rufus, Lucy still grieving her mother’s death from last season, and Wyatt being guilt-ridden over not seeing his wife for who she really was, there’s an atypical dreariness to the first half of the movie that belies the show’s origins as a lovably campy sci-fi adventure.
As with any time travel show, so much has happened and then un-happened that it’s hard to keep the the timey wimey wibbly wobbly stuff straight. Rufus is brought back to life -- only to him it’s like he never left -- meaning he is a different Rufus than the one who went to rescue Jiya from her three-year hideout in Chinatown last season. They both are and aren’t the people they used to be. As interesting as it is to hear Connor (Paterson Joseph) tease the physical side effects of time travel, it’s way more interesting to see the emotional side effects on the team. This is when the movie, and Timeless, is at its best: focusing on how the core characters have been affected by their thrilling but dangerous romps through time.
Jiya repeatedly brings up her time in Chinatown throughout this special, and it’s clear it’s changed her -- Rufus literally sees scars on her body that she is unwilling to talk about. Lucy has now lost her sister and her mother, and is at a loss for how to sort through her feelings of wanting to be with Wyatt without feeling like she’s playing second fiddle to Jessica. Meanwhile, Connor is forced to confront questions about accountability and technology that we are still struggling to answer in the real world.
When pursuing Emma leads the team to North Korea in the middle of the Korean War they, in typical Time Team fashion, are derailed by their own good intentions. A pregnant woman needs their assistance evacuating from a war zone and Lucy feels compelled to help. “Is she important to history?” Wyatt asks. “Everyone’s important,” Lucy responds. This storyline is in line with the show’s penchant for filtering stories about large historical events through the experience of one individual. From freeing accused witches at the Salem trials to standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Union spy Harriet Tubman in the heat of the Civil War, interfering with history has constantly asked the Time Team to consider history from a more personal angle. Here, one woman’s plight puts into perspective a three-year war and demonstrates the radical changes each member of the Time Team has undergone since the first season when Lucy, a former history professor, was strict about preserving historical accuracy and closely monitored how they dressed, talked, and interacted with historical figures. After experiencing unimaginable loss and repeatedly having the rug pulled from under them, the new Time Team is unafraid to mess with the historical timeline if it means saving even one life. This shakeup to their initial mission statement feels like a real moment of growth for the characters and for the show, and it would be a shame not to see it explored further in a potential third season.
With its thrilling (if sometimes rushed) pacing, gorgeous staging and heartfelt storytelling, this movie is proof that Timeless -- the show that cheated death twice -- is worth the drama. "The Miracle of Christmas" successfully pares back the clunky time cult mythology that weighed down Season 2 and focuses on the elements that drew the passionate ...
Dec 15, 2018 · Check out our Timeless 2x12 PICTORIAL teaser for the SERIES FINALE titled “The Miracle of Christmas Part II”. Debut, with Timeless 2x11, on NBC December 20th...
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