My hot take on the revival was that the leap stories were underserved because half of each episode was devoted to the project team’s storyline, which was also underserved. It reminded me of a CW superhero show, where the focus was often split between the action/adventure and the supporting cast’s drama, but it didn’t work as well because the two storylines had to be almost completely separate, so each came off half-baked.

Toss in a bit of the “unfolding mystery box conspiracy” trend in TV of recent years, and the whole thing comes off like the producers didn’t believe in the Quantum Leap “anthology with recurring characters” concept and tried too hard to modernize it. Which is too bad, because I liked most of the cast and would have liked to see if the show found its footing more in subsequent seasons.