'The Time Traveler's Wife' Canceled After a Single Season
Time has indeed run out for The Time Traveler's Wife. HBO has announced that their prestige adaptation of Audrey Niffenegger's best-selling novel will not be getting a Season 2, news that likely comes as a major disappointment to some given that its supposedly "limited" first season was so very obviously angling for a return.
The six-episode series starred Theo James (Sanditon) as Henry DeTamble, a man with a rare genetic disorder that causes him to travel through time at random moments, and Rose Leslie (Game of Thrones) as his wife Clare, forced to try and live a linear life alongside him. Their relationship is messy, romantic, and fairly controversial---Henry first meets Clare when she is just six years old, and though the show tries its best to deal with both the ick factor of that first meeting and the fact that Clare often only seems to exist to help Henry become his best self, it's not particularly successful at either. (In fact, Clare has even less agency and interiority here than she did in the novel, which may be why the show failed to really hook female viewers.)
The series was not particularly well received by critics, scoring just 34% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The HBO adaptation is the second failed attempt to bring this story to the screen following a 2009 feature film starring Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana which was also critically panned.
