Adapted by Steven Moffat from Audrey Niffenegger's hugely popular novel of the same name, The Time Traveler's Wife follows the love story of Clare Abshire (Rose Leslie) and the chronologically challenged Henry DeTamble (Theo James), who involuntarily travels back and forth between different points in his own life. HBO has long been a pioneer in the art of cable raunch, from the bedroom exploits of Carrie Bradshaw and the girls in Sex and the City, to more recent hits like Euphoria and Minx, which feature a whole bunch of sex scenes and full-frontal nudity, and The White Lotus, which brought ass-eating to the small screen in a way that has not been achieved since the original Queer as Folk back in 1999.īut the network may have topped itself-kind of literally-with the second episode of The Time Traveler's Wife.įirst, some context.
