Future Man

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Season 1
  • Network: HULU
  • Series Premiere Date: Nov 14, 2017
Season #: 3, 2, 1
User Score
7.7

Generally favorable reviews- based on 117 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 98 out of 117
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 117
  3. Negative: 13 out of 117
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  1. janetn
    Sep 17, 2018
    0
    A poorly thought out lack luster show. They could have done better, but fell short by not really caring.
  2. crabapple
    Nov 15, 2017
    1
    The pilot's okay, the rest you may like if you are under the age of 15. Great idea horribly executed. Very low brow humor, the story goes nowhere, and there's next to no character development. Cartoons have more entertainment value.
  3. Warlizard
    Nov 21, 2017
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. TL;DR - Bad pacing, bad acting, poor casting, and endless bodily function humor take what could have been a fun show and turn it into an excruciating r̶i̶p̶-̶o̶f̶f̶ homage to 80s sci-fi.

    Seth Rogan and the guys behind "Sausage Party" and "This is the End" clearly like low-brow humor and while that's not necessarily a bad thing, it should be used to further the story. In Future Man, it's included without reason, context, or subtlety.

    The base premise is "The Last Starfighter" meets "Terminator" and it's a pretty fun idea, but man oh man, the execution is horrible.

    A video game is sent back in time and used to find "The Savior". The person who can beat the game is the one who will save the world.

    Josh Hutcherson aka Peeta (may the odds be ever in your favor) beats the game and booyah, the characters from the game appear and take him back in time to stop global annihilation. When they realize he's just a loser gamer and not a highly skilled super-soldier, wackiness ensues.

    Sounds fun, right?

    Well, it isn't. Josh Hutcherson, the lantern-jawed munchkin from the Hunger Games is badly miscast as the janitor/gamer destined to save us using the same tired ideas thoroughly mined in Terminator 2, i.e., don't kill anyone, be nice, try the low-key approach and don't kill cops.

    But, since no one likes reading paragraphs, I'll make a nice list of things that irritated me and hopefully that will help you make your decision on whether or not you'll enjoy this train wreck.

    1. The casting was awful. Josh should have been a geek, not a perfect-complected mini-me. Eliza Coupe (Tiger) is too old for the role and looks it.

    2. "Punching the clown" to video game characters is potentially funny. So is blowing your load on one of the aforementioned characters when they appear in front of you. Remember I said "potentially", right? Well, that potential remains untapped.

    4. If you need clothes after traveling back in time, there are other ways outside of beating up a biker and stealing his. Yeah, yeah, homage, I get it. How many "homages" can you stick in one show? I'll never know because trying to watch this show is just too painful.

    5. If you can save the world by killing ONE person, you do it when you have the chance. Sitcom-style machinations are just annoying and the show is full of them.

    6. Have to inform a pregnant wife that your partner and her husband just died? Well, nothing funnier then having his entire extended family there to hear the good news, right? But let's drag it out and bring them in one by one, building to a crescendo of comedy. At least that was the attempt. The execution was ****

    7. Global annihilation starting because a frat boy got herpes must have sounded hilarious in the pitch meeting. That hilarity didn't translate to the show.

    Do I need to go on? By now you should have a good idea what you're in for by choosing to watch this **** of bad ideas, bad writing, bad execution, bad acting, bad plotting and bad pacing.

    How much did I hate this show? Well, I actually created an account to post this. That should tell you all you need to know.    … Expand
  4. TVBug
    Nov 18, 2017
    1
    Enough with the cartoons. I'm ready for some TV for grownups. How do "penis jokes and projectile vomiting" get a rating of 91 from a person whose job is reviewing movies? Maybe the children's movies should be reviewed by children so the professional reviewers don't get confused. Please, more grownup fare.
  5. GodOne
    Jan 29, 2019
    0
    It's pure trash, only 100 reviews here and most of them are from friends of the staff...

Awards & Rankings

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#95 Best TV Season of 2017
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#37 Most Discussed TV Season of 2017
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#32 Most Shared TV Season of 2017

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Metascore
70

Generally favorable reviews - based on 20 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 20
  3. Negative: 1 out of 20
  1. RogerEbert.com
    Reviewed by: Nick Allen
    Nov 29, 2017
    80
    Everything feels meticulously, lovingly plotted by the show’s creators, but as it’s happening it leads to numerous surprises and big laughs. Future Man is what happens when giddy, geeky and inspired storytelling is allowed to go full throttle.
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  2. Reason.com
    Reviewed by: Glenn Garvin
    Nov 18, 2017
    70
    Once you know that Future Man is written and produced by Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Kyle Hunter, and Ariel Shaffir, the team behind the epically uncouth cartoon Sausage Party, further explanation becomes almost totally unnecessary. It's a comic onslaught against video-gamers and their culture of the past 30 years or so, with the occasional random shot at baby boomers so they won't be left out of the fun.
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  3. Variety
    Reviewed by: Maureen Ryan
    Nov 14, 2017
    50
    Despite the game energy of its cast, Future Man is mostly routine homage, with very little substance shoring up its derivative foundations.
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