- Network: AMC
- Series Premiere Date: Jun 29, 2025
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With a leading man you can’t take your eyes off of and an adventure that’ll leave you hovering on the edge of your seat, Nautilus is comfort food at its finest and a classic in the making, one you should force everyone you know to sit down and watch.
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Nautilus is a visually fun, family-friendly new chapter in the story of Captain Nemo, which keeps the action moving throughout its first episode.
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“Nautilus” shows the human cost and terrible harm of the Company’s historical power grab. But it’s also a rocking good time, an adventure worthy of its budget, with a set of heroes worthy of our allegiance, attention, and admiration.
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“Nautilus” is a hard series not to like, given it has very few pretentions, a devotion to high adventure and a freewheeling approach to killing off characters and twisting the plot—all the while maintaining some fealty to Verne. .... He [H.G. Wells] was also enormously popular. “Nautilus” should be, too.
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Embracing steampunk stylings, “Nautilus” is a serialized, family-friendly adventure with decent special effects.
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It can be slow at times, which is not inappropriate to a show that takes place largely underwater. But that its structure is essentially episodic keeps “Nautilus” colorful and more interesting than if it were simply stretched on the rack of a long arc across its 10 episodes.
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It may stumble in the home stretch – and it could’ve fleshed out the crew a lot earlier – but in the end, Nautilus rights itself. Some boring storylines for the villains can be forgiven when there are giant eels to fight off.
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Nautilus is an entertaining enough series, but there’s nothing particularly remarkable that will make it stand out. And in today’s television landscape, that could be its downfall.
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Nautilus is bold in its changes to Captain Nemo’s story — new monsters, new villains — but imitative to other genre series in execution, and the vibe is a little didactic.
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Nautilus barrels along with the best intentions, is at times exciting… but its characters do say some corny old cobblers.
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There’s a reason, not entirely financial, that Disney+ jettisoned this flimsy but diverting flotsam after it was already produced.
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The project still has a Disney-fied, colorful, and family-centric vibe. But the show feels like a genre-clashing history lesson that’s neither informative nor fun.
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Latif and Flood are fine, albeit in roles where the script keeps leaving them one or two killer moments short in every episode. Beyond them, the trouble starts.