Quantum Leap is coming back in 2022? I was caught off guard, I had not heard anything about this. I wasn’t more than a casual fan of the original series and yet I was at least intrigued to check it out.

The new series is more a continuation of the original rather than a reboot of any sort. The work of Dr. Sam Beckett was going to continue with a little help from Al Calavicci’s daughter.

It’s been thirty years since Dr. Sam Beckett vanished into the Quantum Leap accelerator. The Quantum Leap project has been revived with a new team trying to piece together the mysteries behind Beckett and his machine. For reasons unknown, Dr. Ben Song, the new project’s lead physicist, has uploaded new program code to the project systems and used the upgraded accelerator to leap back in time. He becomes lost in the past just as Beckett did, living the lives of other people and changing history in hopes of getting back to the present. Project employee Addison Augustine, who is Ben’s fiancée, acts as his liaison with the project, appearing to him as a hologram only he can see and hear, just as the previous project’s observer Al Calavicci did for Beckett.

There are many similarities between the two series. The nostalgic familiarity will most certainly be a draw for original fans. Judging from the two episodes that have been released at this writing, there’s not much fresh here. The stories are a little more gritty, the transitions of Ben arriving into the lives of other people seemed a little more fun. The one thing I didn’t enjoy was the hasty introduction of so many characters in such a short time. In many ways they seem to be mere analogies to the characters of the original series. Despite these criticisms, I think it’s worth checking out.

You can find the new series available through Amazon Prime and Peacock TV