Future Man: Season 1 Average User Score: 7.7 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