Scottish Daily Mail

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THE TIME TRAVELER’S WIFE, 9PM, SKY ATLANTIC/NOW

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DON’T get hung up on the time travel logic in Steven Moffat’s six-part take on Audrey Niffenegge­r’s bestsellin­g novel — Moffat might know a thing or two about time travel from his spell writing Doctor Who, but that’s not what matters here. It’s the relationsh­ip at the heart of this headspinni­ng drama that’s important, between Clare and her husband, Henry (Game Of Thrones’s Rose Leslie and Divergent’s Theo James, pictured), a time traveller who can’t control when he travels. The main constant in his life is his wife, and the strength of the story is that their relationsh­ip is threedimen­sional and far from comfortabl­e. For instance, Clare first meets Henry when she is six and he is an adult who knows he is going to marry her — and he’s naked when he arrives, because that’s how time travel works. That’s a tricky scene to navigate, but this show manages it and, from that point, a magical and unique story follows.

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