![]() The problem is, the past doesn’t like to be changed, and when Jake attempts it he is attacked by careening cars, falling chandeliers, and an army of cockroaches bent on his destruction.Īs well as being a blockbuster novelist, King is a seasoned master of mystery television and his hand is evident in the pilot script by Bridget Carpenter (formerly of Parenthood and Friday Night Lights). He has files and research about all sorts of people implicated in the plot, from Lee Harvey Oswald to CIA operatives and Russian émigrés. ![]() Since Al has cancer, he convinces Jake that he has to go back into the past and finish the work he’s started. If the assassination of JFK could be stopped, the thinking goes, then Vietnam would be prevented and all the subsequent fallout and disasters that have come to pass since that date could be averted. Based on a book by Stephen King and executive-produced by JJ Abrams, this is the ultimate baby boomer liberal fantasy. Got it? Al has been using this portal for years to attempt to stop the assassination of John F Kennedy on 22 November 1963, the date in the title, sometimes staying in the past two or three years at a clip before returning to the present two minutes later. ![]()
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