Imagine for a moment that you and two close friends have just graduated from grad-school. You have planned a trip across America as your last hurrah before going out into the real world. With a small prank in an art museum you are sucked into a domestic terrorist conspiracy. This is the world of Traveler.
The pilot episode shows promise to a great opening season, if not a great series through and through. There are some things that are a bit rough in terms of the presentation. It seems like a derivative mix of two great movies, The Fugitive and Enemy of the State.
The producers of the show are the producers from American Beauty (Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen). Directed by David Nutter, who defined many hit series like The X-Files and Without a Trace, it has a distinctive flavor in its presentation of the same old ideas. The main characters Jay Burchell (played by Matthew Bomer), Tyler Fog (Logan Marshall-Green) and Will Traveler (played by Aaron Stanford) are realistic characters ably played by people who match their personalities.
The show is based on the question of who can really be trusted. There are two friends framed by the third of their crew for a domestic terrorist attack. No evidence of the framer can be found either. No one knows who he is or whom he works for. That will probably be revealed over the course of the season(s).
It is definitely worth the watch. It has a strong storyline, even though it really is nothing new. There is an aesthetic value to its presentation and intelligence. It is also teaching a valuable lesson through showing an aspect of the absolute worst that can happen. That lesson is to be careful in who you put your trust in because you can never truly know who they are or what they are capable of.