History Series / Timeless

It was cancelled on May 10, 2017, then UnCanceled by Creator/{{NBC}} due to major fan backlash three days later. Season 2 premiered on March 11, 2018 in the US, and premiered on [[Creator/Channel4 E4]] on April 4th in the UK. The series was canceled again on June 22nd, 2018 but on July 31st, it was announced a special two-hour movie would wrap up its plot points in a huge finale. The finale aired December 20, 2018.

* AltumVidetur: According to Lucy, the gold key pendant worn by Bonnie Parker in "Last Ride of Bonnie and Clyde" is engraved with a Latin phrase about being the key to the beginning and end of time. The actual phrase, however, is not mentioned.

* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Rufus is gunned down by Jessica in the Season 2 finale. In the GrandFinale, Flynn goes back and kills Jessica before she could ever infiltrate the team, averting the events that led to Rufus' death and saving him.]]

* BabiesEverAfter: In the DistantFinale, [[spoiler: Lucy and Wyatt]] have had twin girls.

** In "The murder of Jessie James", Lucy shoots and kills Jessie James (despite Bass Reeves trying to convince Wyatt not to kill him throughout the whole episode and in that particular scene), presumably because she reluctantly believed that Wyatt was right; if Jessie James had been allowed to live and taken into custody, he eventually would have escaped and killed more people who weren't supposed to die.

** Season 2: Nicholas Keynes.
** The GrandFinale TV movie has Emma Whitmore.

** After returning to the present in "Hollywoodland," [[spoiler: Wyatt]] discovers that [[spoiler: Jessica is alive.]]

It was cancelled on May 10, 2017, then UnCanceled by Creator/{{NBC}} due to major fan backlash three days later. Season 2 premiered on March 11, 2018 in the US, and premiered on [[Creator/Channel4 E4]] on April 4th in the UK. The series was canceled again on June 22nd, 2018 but on July 31st, it was announced a special two-hour movie would wrap up its plot points in a huge finale.

** Season 2: Nicholas Keynes

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Flynn travels to the past to take out Jessica in MutualKill, ensuring Rufus lives.]]

* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:Wyatt's wife Jessica is a Rittenhouse operative.]]

* StableTimeLoop: At the end of "The Lost Generation", Lucy's mother gives her a gift: [[spoiler: the journal that Flynn was using to know the future.]]

* ConceptsAreCheap: A villainous example. Rittenhouse supposedly stands for a world where qualified people rule from the shadows, making sure the stupid masses do what they're supposed to. We never get any details, though, about just ''why'' Rittenhouse thinks they're so especially qualified, nor even ''what it is'' they think the stupid masses are supposed to do, exactly.

** In "Karma Chameleon" Rufus is trying to strike up a conversation with a lady in the bar. He notices ''Series/{{Manimal}}'' playing on the bar's TV and mentions he's a fan, whereupon she mentions she likes the show too. Leaving aside the probability of Rufus even being ''aware'' of a show that was cancelled ''the month he was born'' after only 8 episodes[[note]]Rufus mentions he was born in December 1983 and thus would have been conceived sometime in March--hence his concern about travelling to that time period. Manimal is widely regarded as one of the worst TV shows ever and was never aired in syndication nor released on video until a limited DVD run in 2012.[[/note]] the episode takes place in March 1983. The show didn't even premiere until September 30. They're watching a show that ''doesn't even exist yet''.[[note]]What's even more amusing is that ''Manimal'', like this series, was also an NBC property--part of NBC's disastrous Fall 1983 lineup in which ''none'' of the nine new shows that premiered were renewed for a second season. The production staff if nobody else should have been aware of this.[[/note]] The lady is also a fan of ''Film/{{Flashdance}}'' and ''Staying Alive'', with both came out in 1983... on ''April 15'' and ''July 15'' respectively. (Not to mention the latter was (and is) nowhere near as popular than [[Film/SaturdayNightFever the movie it was a sequel]].) Not to mention that March 3, 1983 was a '''Saturday''' and ''Series/TheATeam'' aired first-run on Tuesdays... (and Rufus states the episode they see on TV is "The Beast from the Belly of a Boeing"... which first aired in May. Given that both ''The A-Team'' and ''Timeless'' were co-produced by Universal, you'd think someone would have noticed).

* InThePastEveryoneWillBeFamous: The time travellers run into a new HistoricalDomainCharacter basically every other scene. Very much [[JustifiedTrope justified]] though, since usually they're either intentionally seeking them out (either to protect them from Flynn or because they need to enlist their help and of course are only familiar with those people who made it into the history books) or the places they had been at that particular point in time.

** This is much more downplayed after the pilot. History still changes after each mission but the effects are not as widespread as one would presume. History seems to "auto-correct" and instead of a cascade of changes, we instead get minor historical footnotes that do not significantly change major events.

*** [[spoiler: Jessica is clearly one given that she's reinstated in the timeline by Rittenhouse and recruited (they saved her brother's life with modern medicine, in the original timeline he dies very young.]]

It was cancelled on May 10, 2017, then UnCanceled by Creator/{{NBC}} due to major fan backlash three days later. Season 2 premiered on March 11, 2018 in the US, and premiered on [[Creator/Channel4 E4]] on April 4th in the UK.

* UnexplainedAccent: Although Garcia Flynn is presuambly supposed to be an American of combined Hispanic and Irish ancestry (and in line with this, giving his name establishes his bona fides to the Spanish/Mexican General Santa Anna), Goran Višnjić plays him with his own distinctive Croatian accent. This is sometimes given a LampshadeHanging, including one episode where a Union general is suspicious of him and cites his unplaceable accent, and another where when claiming the two are [[PinkertonDetective Pinkertons]], Rufus identifies Flynn as "[[ImMrFuturePopCultureReference Hans Gruber]]", to Flynn's annoyance.