By Jennifer Larson

Even after everything he went through last week, Dan (Kevin McKidd) still doubts his time travel experiences. Actually, if my family and friends found it easier to believe that I was a drug addicted loser than a time traveling hero I might second-guess myself too. However, I kind of thought that was all worked out at the end of last week’s episode, when Dan cleverly proved to his wife Katie (Gretchen Egolf) that he was indeed being thrown back in time by digging up her new wedding ring from under their deck. He buried it there while he was in the year 1997, in order to show his wife proof of what he was doing. That’s just one of the confusing plot twists on this show. I have to say that I’m still on the fence with this one folks. It’s such a good premise and has so much promise, but they just haven’t established the characters and plotlines in a cohesive manner. Granted, it takes a few weeks to really bond with these new people, but they threw so much at us during the premiere, that I didn’t feel there was enough time to really get to know these characters or what their motives were.

Our main character seems a little confused as well. He decided to get an MRI, to rule out the possibility of some kind of medical condition. I guess I would do the same thing. I mean what’s more likely, a tumor or the ability to throw yourself throughout time? Unfortunately – or fortunately depending on how you may feel about it – Dan takes another trip through time, while on a plane with his wife. Yes, it was back to the time of Casey and the Sunshine Band and hot pants for flight attendants – or stewardesses as they were called back then – for our guy Dan. He seems a bit more comfortable with the whole thing, this week. I’m guessing he never really believed his travels were medical related. Of course this latest trip proposes quit a problem in his year.


With all the new security rules regarding flying, it does not bode well when Dan walks into the bathroom never to come out. This leaves his wife, Katie in a very uncomfortable position, as she has to answer for his disappearance to airport security. Unfortunately, that puts a damper on their baby making plans, which was the reason for the trip in the first place. Ironically, Dan and his wife were going on this trip to make a baby of their own. It’s ironic because the purpose for his latest adventure was to deliver a baby on that plane in the 70s. Of course the fact that Dan’s ex, and supposedly dead fiancé, Livia (Moon Bloodgood), keeps showing up whenever Dan is sent on one of his trips could put a little hitch in the baby getty up as well. Carrying a torch for the time traveling love of his life, could seriously mess with this guy’s marriage. But the fact that his ex is time traveling as well has to be put on hold – yet again – because it appears that Dan is following the mother and child he helped through different periods of their lives.

And from the looks of things, he better hurry. Being an investigative reporter in his normal life, Dan has the knowledge needed to research these people he keeps being sent to help. It appears that the single mother on the plane has prematurely died. But that doesn’t mean he’s being sent back to save her. As we saw last week, things aren’t always what they seem. Take for example the fact that Katie and Dan knew each other for years before they got together, because she was dating his brother Jack (Reed Diamond). Wow, this is really a tangled mess, isn’t it? Honestly, I don’t know that his show needed another twist, but there you go. And now that she and Dan are having so many marital problems, it begs the question of whether she chose the right brother.


At least Jack isn’t roaming around time trying to get a motherless child to give her bone marrow to the man who refused to acknowledge he was her father. Yep, it looks like that is the point to this weeks episode of JOURNEYMAN. Life is certainly messy, but being born to a single mother who ends up dying too young, and then being callously rejected by your absent father is pretty painful stuff. But thanks to Dan, father and daughter get a second chance right before the father dies. Now trying to work on his own life, well that may take more than a few trips back in time.