The refreshed "Quantum Leap" takes barely a breath in establishing its back story, its premise or its characters. ... The new show has a number of welcome nods to the past, including the presence of Ernie Hudson ... The possibilities are vast and the ideas elastic. As the show hardly seems poised to put off loyal fans, let's hope it's given time to fully exercise its evident sense of mischief.

Raymond Lee makes a decent first impression as the new Leaper, physicist Ben Song. ... The new “Leap” does have the added element of a connection to Beckett and his hologram companion, Al (the late Dean Stockwell), but that serialized story seems destined to drag on endlessly unless and until Bakula reprises his role.

Unfortunately, the relationship between agent and handler is less fascinating than in the original. ... That said, this “Leap” is also less dependent on that core relationship. ... The story in the pilot (the only episode screened for critics) is diverting enough for an episode with a lot of heavy lifting to do. But every episode is a new opportunity for the show to sink or swim on its own merits. In other words: look before you “Leap.”

That earnestness can be a double-edge sword, of course, and at times Quantum Leap can veer into the cheesy territory, but that cheese is mostly kept in check thanks to the main cast.

NBC’s Quantum Leap reboot has a charming star and slick action scenes, but gets bogged down by corny dialogue and dead-end mysteries.

The pilot for this new Quantum Leap is 41-ish minutes of nearly nonstop exposition and hand-holding, making sure both that new viewers understand every aspect of the premise and that returning fans understand the connection between this update and the original — no matter how irrelevant it ends up being.

The new Quantum Leap could end up being decent, but it needs to elevate itself above being a standard dark NBC procedural and take itself a lot less seriously.

Is it better than the original, no. Is it the heaping pile of crap that people at least right now seem to be making it out to be, also no. I’m giving it a 7.

I went in with very low expectations and enjoyed it more than I expected. The writing is very weak, and the characters do not feel right. Think Big Bang Theory before the re-casting/re-write. It is watchable, but not very good.

I waited a lot for this reboot, I'm a fan of the original series, Ben Song's jumps are entertaining and the series has good backstory, the problem is that this production is another one that adds to the gay propaganda! I have nothing against gays and trans people but pretending to include them by force in everything is annoying, I just saw episode 12 "Let them play" and it is an apology to the normalization of transsexuality, I can't watch more series of this type! at this rate I'm almost giving up even watching movies.

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You had shuch an amazing consept to work with and you could have i tegrated the old show. But no you think you are better at writing a show than the original team. This could have been great. But you did the original an injustice.