The original post: /r/television by /u/IHaveNoOpinons on 2026-02-23 08:40:52+00:00.
I have only seen the British LoM (several times), and absolutely love the show, the actors, and the premise.
My only bugbear with it is the question Sam keeps asking is “Am I Mad, In a Coma, or Back in Time?”
The show also tries to keep you as the audience guessing, especially in the last couple of episodes. Essentially it tries to gaslight you (and John Simm/Sam Tyler) into thinking it is all real and he is suffering from head trauma and amnesia.
I was thinking that the show could have been improved if they had removed the prologue from episode one. Starting with Sam waking up and building the history with flashbacks. The problem is that as the audience we are 100% sure at every point that Sam is in a coma in 2006. The show might have been improved if we couldn’t be sure and had to draw our own conclusions and theories right up until he woke up, and potentially for longer still if they played the episode like he was seeing and hearing hospital noises from 1973 when he was in 2006.
I rate the show 10/10 as it is, but I think it could have also been a 10/10 head-fuck thriller if the show runners had wanted it that way.
Keen to hear other’s thoughts.