Eighteen Again asks a question worth turning over in the dark. If you could be eighteen again, knowing what you know now, would you undo the things you regret?
It builds a wistful fantasy out of that wish and uses it to study the relationships that hold a life together. Parent and child. Husband and wife. Old friends. A grandparent and a grandchild. The drama keeps circling one idea: would a last chance at saying the words out loud change how any of it ends?
I loved the premise more than the execution. The pacing drags as the final episodes stretch past where the story wanted to stop. And for once the leads did not hold me. They are pleasant to watch and short on the screen presence that usually carries a show through its slower patches.
A lovely idea, then, asked to walk a little farther than its legs could carry it.
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