Jake has to spend three years preparing for Lee Harvey Oswald, all while trying to learn if the assassin is acting alone. Everybody knows that.ĭEGGANS: Still, this story moves very, very slowly. UNIDENTIFIED ACTRESS: (As character) Please, the book's always better.

There's even a moment when producers wink at the audience, when Jake talks to a women in 1960 about her favorite book, 'From Here To Eternity.'įRANCO: (As Jake Epping) 'From Here To Eternity,' which do you like better, the book or the movie? Jake finds even the food tastes better in 1960 while planning to stop a murder that defined the era. UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: (As Jake Epping's Dad) Hello?ĭEGGANS: The call won't go through, and a runaway car eventually destroys the payphone he's using.ĭEGGANS: Like most Stephen King inventions, this story is a wonderful take on the typical time travel story. So when Jake tries to call his dad in 1960. And if he goes back to 1960 again, everything resets, and his previous actions in past will vanish. When Jake returns to the present, only 2 minutes will have past. If Kennedy had survived, no way does that escalation continue.ĭEGGANS: There are rules. So if you save JFK, then there's no Vietnam.ĬOOPER: (As Al Templeton) Johnson was the one who escalated everything in 'Nam. As Al explains to Jake, the stakes are high.įRANCO: (As Jake Epping) OK. JAMES FRANCO, BYLINE: (As Jake Epping, screaming).ĬOOPER: (As Al Templeton) You go through there, and it's 1960.įRANCO: (As Jake Epping) You're saying this is a time portal?ĬOOPER: (As Al Templeton) I call it a rabbit hole.įRANCO: (As Jake Epping) How long's it been there?ĬOOPER: (As Al Templeton) Since I had the diner.įRANCO: (As Jake Epping) Who else knows about it?ĭEGGANS: Inexplicably, Jake keeps listening after Al explains what he really wants him to do, stop the assassination of President John F. Stay as long as you need.ĭEGGANS: And when Jake walks inside that room.

But then Al, played by Chris Cooper, asks him to do something odd.ĬHRIS COOPER, BYLINE: (As Al Templeton) I need to go in this closet and take a look around. He likes handing out in a diner owned by his friend Al. Played by James Franco, he's a divorced, mediocre high school teacher with a goatee that makes him come off like a failed hipster.

All right, the streaming service Hulu is premiering a miniseries tonight that's adapted from Stephen King's time travel novel '11.22.63.' NPR TV critic Eric Deggans has this review.ĮRIC DEGGANS, BYLINE: At first, Jake Epping doesn't look much like a crusading hero.

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