Unfortunately, I have watched nearly every episode of "Quantum Leap." Why is this show so acclaimed? In five years, it never went in any interesting direction for more than one episode. In his long years of "leaping from life to life," Dr. Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) assumes the identities of women, rape victims, too many Southern lawyers, and the mentally retarded. However, every episode, viewers find themselves introduced to entirely new characters in a maddeningly short space of time. We have no time to relate in the slightest to any of these characters. The only two we actually have time to relate to are a larger-than-life hero (impossible) and a lecherous hologram (again, impossible). The series also went to similar places too often, dealing primarily only with the following: death, racial prejudice, and Sam's burning desire to get home. There were a few interesting episodes (for example, Season 5's "Leaping of the Shrew"), but overall, it's just another dangerously overrated inexplicable phenomenon, just like "My Name is Earl" and the new version of "Battlestar Galactica."
Review of Quantum Leap
