This is a spoiler-free review for all 13 new episodes of Hulu's Future Man - which premiered Tuesday, November 14th.
Here's the thing about Hulu's Future Man, which stars The Hunger Games' Josh Hutcherson as a homebody gamer who gets recruited into an epic quest to save humanity's future: it's good. It has a lot going for it, including the cast, which also features Happy Endings' Eliza Coupe and Preacher's Derek Wilson. The idea of a go-for-broke time travel action comedy is solid and Future Man is nothing if not committed to certain elements of shock and awe laughs.
Where the series falters somewhat (I've watched all of Season 1, which premiered this past Tuesday) is actually in that very commitment. Occasionally the series, which goes all in on gross-out visual humor, becomes its own worst enemy by going overboard with raunch. There's nothing inherently wrong with comedic vulgarity, but in order to make the crass elements funny there also needs to be some restraint. Netflix's Big Mouth ran into these issues recently as well, where all of a sudden creators land on a streaming service and have license to, basically, do and show what ever they want without fear of advertisers, demographics, or decency standards and a certain unmeasurable quantity of "funny" gets lost in their gusto to put absolutely everything out there.
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