User Reviews

First off, I was a little confused because the previews showed Ben leaping into a female punk rocker. Instead, we got a small-time bank robber trying to save his partner from dying on their next heist. Overall, I wasn't too impressed with the writing on this first episode, especially since they never explained why he "accidentally" leaped in the first place. But I'll give it a chance to improve. Raymond Lee, as Dr. Ben Song, was OK. He has some dramatic range, but it remains to be seen if he's as versatile an actor as Scott Bakula. I didn't like the casting choice of Caitlin Bassett as Dr. Song's advisor and time-travel companion. She's playing it very serious, doesn't contribute much in terms of useful or strategic information, and doesn't even have the colorful little communicator with Ziggy that squeals and squawks. For this Addison/"Al" character to be successful she's going to need to be more commanding, as far as interpreting the reason for each leap, and humorous. The rest of the Quantum Leap team didn't have much to do in the Pilot, mainly because they're all trying to figure out why Dr. Song deliberately leaped when they're still trying to get Ziggy programmed. I'm not sure what the plan is for them is as they were not featured in the original series.

Raymond Lee is no Scott Bakula. Say what you will about the original series, but Bakula had the right talent for the role. He was... versatile. The previews at the end of this episode don't give me much hope. Lee's character, Ben, fights and jumps and does some action stuff. In the premiere he drives a car and punches out a guy. I can't imagine him playing a woman, or a teenager, or a concert piano player, or a lounge singer, or a lab monkey. Maybe the show will surprise me, but the preview should show us what to come. And last night's preview showed a lot of Ben doing a lot of action stuff.

The rest of the episode was okay. I liked Enajite Esegine as Charlie, who managed to steal every scene she was in. Michael Malarkey was suitably menacing. I didn't really feel much sympathy for Ryan, but Michael Welch didn't have much to work with, either. The whole thing seemed awfully rushed. There's only one restaurant in all of York? But let's get the crew to the restaurant, so they can settle down and we can have a _lot_ of exposition about leaping. You had exposition of the premise, and exposition of 1985, and the scenes in the present where they had to establish a very other things. The episode could have benefited by being 90 minutes.

The present-day crew were okay. Mason Alexander Park was suitably quirky, and Ernie Hudson is comfortable like an old pair of shoes. Jenn and Addison didn't do anything for me, but I'm willing to give them a chance to grow on me. Even Raymond Lee is okay: he just isn't Scott Bakula.

Overall, the producers need to get out of "action star of the week doing action stuff" framework and give Raymond Lee a chance to strut his stuff. Assuming he has stuff to strut. If he doesn't, it's going to be a long slog.

But that's just my opinion, I could be wrong. What do you think?

I was a fan of the original Quantum Leap back in the day, and I was encouraged to see the continuation, kind of a reboot, kind of a continuation of the original.

Raymond Lee plays Dr. Benjamin 'Ben' Song an Caitlin Bassett plays Addison Augustine, the fiance of Ben, and the Al-like character from the original. Unfortunately Ben, in his state of transition from one timeline to the next, cannot remember that he was engaged to Caitlin.

I know the imdb user reviews were horrid, but to get a more realistic perspective, it's worth reading the reviews of an episode rather than the whole series.

Quantum Leap lives!

Quantum Leap (2022) shared the same hopes and ambition of the original series. Unfortunately, at least as far as the pilot is concerned, it missed the mark.

As the series tries to be a continuation of the Sam Beckett timeline, there were too many inconsistencies. For starters, the lack of a "waiting room" guest. When Sam leaped into his subject, that person would leap back and would stay in the waiting room, where Al could interrogate and along with Ziggy's calculations, find out what Sam is there to do. Here, no mention of a person that leaps back, which is why they couldn't find out anything about the person Ben leaped into.

Also in the original series, it was theorized that if the person Sam leaps into dies, Sam doesn't die. This was proven a couple of times during the series, most notably when Sam leaped into someone on death row. Sam was electrocuted and he simply leaped out and into his next subject. Here, they insist that Ben would die if the person he leaps into dies.

Would be nice to see a more consistent relation to the original series, though I understand this series has to blossom and stand on its own Merritt. However, the concerns are somewhat understandable since this series was, for what I feel was rushed to be made. The announcement to be ordered to series was in May 2022. Not a lot of time to get things right.

Maybe the writers fine tune the show. I'll watch a few more episodes to give it a chance. However, this pilot was "ok". A bit disappointing from what I was expecting, but still entertaining enough to watch.

Some scenes lack coherence after the editing.

The editing moves quickly and there are impossible positions of other actors or even themselves . Lots of back and frontshots.

The ending to the first leap is forced and doesn't make a lot of sense. Did all the bad guys disappear?

There is a scene in a car. The background and the look from the side window does feel projected.. there appears to be a difference in the resolution of the scene.

The original series was one of my favourites back than. I am afraid it didn't age well and watching this does not give me much hope.

I'll watch the second episode as well. I do hope that the relationship between the two lovebirds is revealed in the second episode.

Her being unable to tell who they are in the present was really unnecessary and it was an annoyance.

I always has a soft spot for the original Quantum Leap. In the UK it partially filled the void left by the cancellation of Doctor Who by the BBC.

Much of the series rested on the chemistry between Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell.

Now Quantum Leap is back. It is not a reboot but a quasi continuation with a new cast.

Ben Song (Raymond Lee) is celebrating at a party with his fiancée Addison Augustine (Caitlin Bassett) when he suddenly decides to leap. He ends back in Philadelphia 1985 just in time for Live Aid.

Ben enters the body of Nick Rounder a getaway driver of a heist. He has to help Ryan a desperate man who has teamed up with some criminals to get money to pay form his wife's health treatment.

In the chaos and as Ben's memory has gone all Swiss cheese. Addison enters as his holographic aid. She tells him that Ryan ends up dead and they need to continue with the next heist lined up.

Complicating matters, it turns out that Nick is actually an undercover cop and his cover is exposed.

This was a tepid opening episode. I was not grabbed by the main leads, they were all bland apart from the non binary actor Mason Alexander Park.

The main story of the week had a subtext about universal health care. Ryan is desperate as the health insurance had pulled the plug in his wife's treatment.

What I did find intriguing was the reason why Ben made the leap. It turns out he was meant to be Addison's hologram when she eventually made the leap.