Wow, this has been on Netflix since December 2016, a 12 episode season of a show called Travelers.
Basically human consciousness is sent back to the past where the people taken over become agents working to prevent events of the past to (hopefully) stop destroying the future.
Usually they take over someone who is about to die, but in an emergency they can take over anyone. They research the best people to take using social media records.
It's good as sci-fi goes, I just wish the 12 episode season didn't end on a huge cliffhanger.
Still, worth checking out for those into such things.
Basically human consciousness is sent back to the past where the people taken over become agents working to prevent events of the past to (hopefully) stop destroying the future.
Usually they take over someone who is about to die, but in an emergency they can take over anyone. They research the best people to take using social media records.
It's good as sci-fi goes, I just wish the 12 episode season didn't end on a huge cliffhanger.
Still, worth checking out for those into such things.