• Network: AMC
  • Series Premiere Date: Jun 29, 2025
Metascore
65

Generally favorable reviews - based on 13 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 13
  2. Negative: 0 out of 13

Critic Reviews

  1. Reviewed by: Maggie Boccella
    Jun 30, 2025
    80
    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.
  2. Reviewed by: Joel Keller
    Jun 30, 2025
    80
    Nautilus is a visually fun, family-friendly new chapter in the story of Captain Nemo, which keeps the action moving throughout its first episode.
  3. Reviewed by: Cristina Escobar
    Jun 27, 2025
    80
    “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.
  4. Reviewed by: John Anderson
    Jun 26, 2025
    80
    “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.
  5. Reviewed by: Rob Owen
    Jun 24, 2025
    72
    Embracing steampunk stylings, “Nautilus” is a serialized, family-friendly adventure with decent special effects.
  6. Reviewed by: Robert Lloyd
    Jun 30, 2025
    70
    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.
  7. Reviewed by: Devan Suber
    Jun 25, 2025
    70
    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.