’12 Monkeys’: In Its Final Season, the Syfy Drama Is a Reminder that Sometimes Television Should Just Be Fun

There’s a weird, wonderful beauty to be found in a television show that just completed a four-season run in the era of “too much TV” and only exists thanks to a ’60s French art film.

Technically, of course, the Syfy original series “12 Monkeys” is far more indebted to the 1995 film starring Bruce Willis and Madeline Stowe, but every episode includes a mention of the 1962 short “La Jeteé” in the final credits — and more importantly, echoed its basic weirdness in its very existence.Keeping many of the same character names from the film, the show took the original premise — a man gets sent from the future to stop the spread of a deadly virus, with the help of a modern-day doctor — and warped itself with time loops, alternate universes, and crazy twists that require a conspiracy-board-level of attention to detail, but was a lot of fun to follow.Like many modern-day sci-fi shows,

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