Quantum Leap (2022): Quantum Leap: A Decent Proposal
February 23, 2023 7:49 AM - Season 1, Episode 4 - Subscribe

Ben jumps into Eva, a bounty hunter who is in love with the Manny from “This is Us”. Can he catch the criminal while solving problems of the heart?

I was gratified to see that they aren’t going to drag out the “Ben doesn’t remember he’s in love with Addison” plot for too long. All the stuff going on with the team and the larger plot is thankfully NOT inspired by early 90s TV when meta plots made glacial progress a couple of times a season at most.

It does seem like this version of the show will also default to having Ben leap into men and so tell men’s stories most of the time. That’s disappointing. I keep imagining how much richer the stories could be with Ian as the leaper. But they did a good job of not turning this story into an exercise in cross-dressing “humor”. Hugely disappointed that they avoided having Ben and the Manny kiss. Surely a show with a prominent nonbinary character should be past gay panic?
posted by rikschell (1 comment total) 2 users marked this as a favorite
 
I think this is the first episode where Magic reveals that he was previously leaped into by Sam in 1970 in Vietnam. I thought that was a neat plot point, and one that raises lots of interesting questions about what it means to have had Sam (or another leaper) occupy your body.
posted by simonw at 7:55 PM on February 27, 2023


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