http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/05/arts/television/review-daughter-and-father-talking-across-time-in-cws-frequency.html 2016-10-04 22:00:46 Review: Daughter and Father, Talking Across Time in CW’s ‘Frequency’ At first this new series seems as if were going to be a mere time-jumping drama tinged with nostalgia, but it morphs into something more complex. === The intriguing CW series Peyton List (“The Tomorrow People”) stars as Raimy Sullivan, a 28-year-old detective with policing in her blood. Her father, Frank (Riley Smith of That all changes when an old ham radio that Raimy and her father played with when she was a girl mysteriously crackles to life. The CW audience skews young enough that some viewers may need to pause at the first commercial break to Google “ham radio,” but it’s a sweet little conceit worthy of one of Mr. King’s novels. There’s even a pivotal baseball element — as there was in Anyway, 2016 Raimy and 1996 Frank soon realize that by using the radio, they can talk to each other across time. And Frank gives Raimy reason to rethink the conventional wisdom that he was a dirty cop. Had the premise stopped there, “Frequency” would have made an appealing limited series, with Raimy spending, say, 10 episodes working with her father to clear his name and maybe even solve the serial-killer case that comes into play during the premiere. But Jeremy Carver, the creator of the series, knows something about how to string out a science-fiction idea from his long involvement with the bedrock Ms. List is appealing in the lead role, and she’s surrounded by a solid supporting cast, including Daniel Bonjour as Raimy’s boyfriend, and Mekhi Phifer as Frank’s former partner, who is still on the force in 2016. Frank’s portion of the story, of course, also allows for dollops of the 1990s nostalgia so popular these days on TV, where viewers who were children back then are so coveted. The manipulation of time and the perplexing theoretical problem of how altering past events affects the future have been science-fiction TV subjects forever, from the