11.22.63

When you fight the past, the past fights back.

Rating

3.5 (1)

Release Date

2/15/2016

Runtime

8 eps, 439 mins

Genres

Drama Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Overview

An English teacher travels back in time to prevent the Kennedy assassination, but discovers he is attached to the life he has made in a bygone era.

Status

Ended

Original Language

English

Budget

Revenue

Homepage

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How It Feels

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A time traveler arrives in 1963 to stop an assassination, but becomes entangled in the life he builds there, caught between duty and belonging. The series explores how the past resists change and how love can complicate even the most righteous intentions.

Mood

TenseMelancholicWistfulContemplative

Themes

LoveObsessionMortalityMemoryComing apart

Tone

Earnest

Pacing

Steady

Look

NaturalisticDocumentary-like

Structure

Framed flashback

Heads up

Graphic violenceSuicide and self-harm

James Franco

Jake Epping

Sarah Gadon

Sadie Dunhill

Chris Cooper

Al Templeton

Daniel Webber

Lee Harvey Oswald

Lucy Fry

Marina Oswald

George MacKay

Bill Turcotte

Braeden Lemasters

Mike Coslaw

Gil Bellows

FBI Agent James B. Hosty

Grantham Coleman

Bonnie Ray Williams

Wilbur Fitzgerald

Captain Will Fritz

Leon Rippy

Harry Dunning

Constance Towers

Old Sadie Dunhill

Reviews

stormaciousd

Mar 8, 2026

I enjoyed this, but also he tells two people he's from the future, and they both just believe him almost immediately. What?! You're telling me James Franco has such a sincere face you just believe him?