One of the most disjointed series I ever tied to watch.Actually I lived in all of the countries that these people passed through from 1970-1975 and I didn't think anyone who was there would find this portrayal realistic.Firstly the Lead man was Super straight looking ,and no hippies would have trusted or identified with him ,he actually looks like a Jim Jones clone ( and we all know about drinking the kool - Aid ) And switching back and forth between time sequences was impossible to follow. You could have made a much better movie of the those lives and times inI so many ways ,The Hippie Trial was magical ,but this didn't catch all the journey or even a little of why people were there and how it changed our lives.