Travelers is honestly one of my favorite Netflix series.  The acting is wonderful and the characters are so multi-faceted, that they stay both interesting and relatable at the same time.  It has all of the elements of science fiction, time travel, mystery, suspense and spy drama wrapped into one.  Each season I have been curious where they are going to take the plot next, as it seems that eventually they will have to run out of different directions to take the story.  This season we saw our team battle against other travelers from the future in the form of the “Faction”.  A rogue group who are against The Director and want to stop him (I use the term “Him” even though the Director is an A.I.), and kill off the other Travelers who are loyal to him in the process. Furthermore, we see that certain members of the government are now aware of the presence of Travelers as well, and even though they don’t like them they are seemingly willing to work with them as long as they don’t pose a threat to humanity.

This season also saw big changes happening for the people who are in the lives of our Traveler team as well. Since the kidnapping by 001 at the end of season 2, David, Jeff and  Kathryn, all take different paths.  David is still completely loyal to Marcy of course but does seek to become “tougher”, and learn how to fight and buy a gun.  Jeff doesn’t have his mind completely wiped because of his alcoholism and starts to remember more details about his abduction and Travelers.  And Kathryn doesn’t feel safe around Grant anymore but she isn’t sure why. Something feels wrong to her and she just knows he is not her husband.  Jeff finally confronts Carly and it doing so is overwritten by another Traveler that the Director sends from the future.  Kathryn takes Grant to the place where they first met 17 years ago and when he doesn’t remember anything about their first meeting, she tells him to leave and that he is not her husband. But David’s story is perhaps the most sad.  After being enlisted by the “new” Traveler Jeff, whose mission it was to save an Archivist that the Faction had taken into custody, David unwillingly walks into an archivist safehouse that is ambushed by The Faction.  The archivist–a Traveler from the future who literally records the past in their nanites in their blood and saves it to pass down to future generations to give to the Director–is shot and killed instantly.  David is holding bags of nanite blood when he is shot, which essentially saves his life, but then he is locked in the safe with a nuclear bomb!!  The team races to find him and because they can’t unlock the safe to diffuse the bomb, David must do it alone with minutes to spare.  In a tragic turn of events David must grab the nuclear core and throw it on the ground to destroy it–but in doing so he exposes himself to lethal amounts of radiation that will kill him within hours.  The team assumes that The Director will send technology from the future to save him, but he does not.  In his final moments David admits that he knows Marcy and the team are from the future and he doesn’t care. Marcy is of course both devastated and angry with the Director.

The drama does not stop there as the team realizes that Traveler 001 has sent his consciousness into the internet and is seeking to destroy all of humanity.  In a last ditch effort, they decide the only thing that can be done is for one of them to be sent back to a time BEFORE Traveler 001 is sent here, and that they must send a message back that The Traveler program is a failure.  Time travel shows always make your head spin, because none of us really know how it would work!!  As Agent Grant MacLaren is sent back, he once again changes history and even though we see David and Marcy die, in the new timeline they are both alive again.  The season ends with a transmission being sent that Traveler Program 1 has failed……but Traveler Program 2 has been initiated.

It as a great season of twists and turns, drama, excitement and many heartbreaking real human stories and emotions.  It is such a different show than so many others currently on TV and streaming, that it is a refreshing break from your ordinary cop show or science fiction drama as it seeks to incorporate both in some fashion. Eric McCormack does an amazing job as team leader, but all of the supporting cast is excellent.