Syfy’s 12 Monkeys is nothing like Terry Gilliam’s film — and that’s why I’m interested — theverge.com

The original 12 Monkeys, like the French short La Jetée that inspired it, was a puzzle box movie about insanity and inevitability, carefully crafted to wrap around itself and land an unexpected emotional punch at the end. How a series would tackle that element was one of the things I was most interested in, but the answer appears to be that Syfy is sidestepping it completely and doing something different with the premise. And as strange as it sounds, that’s one of the most interesting things about the series.

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