Five reasons to binge 'one-of-a-kind comedy' Future Man S2

4 April, 2019 - 08:00

Future Mans combination of silly comedy and clever sci-fi has made it a rare genre hit with critics, whove given Season 2 a 100% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Collider hailed it as a sci-fi comedy triumph while Den of Geek praised it as an unpredictable, one-of-a-kind comedy... a classic, fearless piece of sci-fi comedy.

Season 2, now first and only on Showmax in South Africa, picks up in 2162. Josh, Wolf and Tiger learn that their Season 1 mission to stop the herpes cure from getting out didnt work. In this timeline, Stu Camillo is now in power, having created the cure, and has launched a plan to relocate humanity to Mars. A shadowy organisation called The Pointed Circle seeks to recruit Josh to take Stu down -- but are they the good guys, or is Stu?

Here are five reasons to go binge Future Man immediately:

#1. Josh Hutcherson as Josh Futturman

Josh won four Teen Choice awards as Peeta in The Hunger Games but his character here couldnt be further away from that over-achieving heart-throb. In Future Man, he plays Josh Futturman, a slacker janitor by day, obsessive gamer by night, who is recruited by mysterious visitors to travel through time in order to prevent the extinction of humanity at the hands of a super-race accidentally created by a cure for herpes. But some heroes are born; others are chosen... by mistake. Lets just say Josh Futturman wouldnt have survived long in The Hunger Games, even if hes slowly growing into the hero Wolf and Tiger convinced him he was in Season 1.

#2. Derek Wilson as Wolf

Youll recognise Derek as Donnie in Preacher and Kent in Rectify, but Future Man gives him his best role by far as Wolf, one of the time-travellers sent back from a dystopian future to recruit Josh. ScreenRant calls him the shows not-so-secret weapon and the MVP of Season 1, rightly pointing out that his hyper-aggressive, overly masculinized persona was the source of the shows biggest laughs. If Josh is hopelessly unprepared to be a military hero, then Wolf is even less prepared to blend into any era that values human life. Wolf happily gets more screen-time in Season 2 - and a suitably unconventional family...

#3. Eliza Coupe as Tiger

Eliza Coupes always been funny: shes been featured in Variety as part of their 10 Comics To Watch feature and starred in hit comedies like Happy Endings, Casual, Scrubs, and The Mindy Project, among many others. But shes a revelation as an action hero in Future Man. She plays Tiger - as Decider phrases it, a kickass lady general who had the discipline and gravitas of every video game commander but the comedic timing of Amy Brookheimer on Veep. In Season 2, Eliza gets to play multiple versions of Tiger (this is sci-fi, after all) and even has her own musical fantasy sequence that Den of Geek calls a season highlight.

#4. Haley Joel Osment as Stu Camillo

I see dead people... Remember that kid actor in The Sixth Sense who became the first millennial male nominated for an Oscar? Hes all grown up now - and even has the beard to prove it. In Future Man, he plays scientist Stu Camillo - described by Inverse as the worst case scenario of what might happen in the future if we let beta male tech magnates like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg take over the entire world. Hes also obsessed with Tiger - and takes part in what Inverse calls the weirdest sci-fi sex scene of all time. (Which, for anyone who knows sci-fi, is quite a claim).

#5. Itll make you laugh out loud - a lot

Ultimately, as Decider puts it, Future Man Season 2 isnt going to be the most prestigious show you watch in 2019... But theres one thing I can guarantee it will do: itll make you laugh loud and often. Sometimes, thats all you need.

That should be more than enough of a sales pitch for Future Man to be on your watchlist, but if youre still holding out, we should add that two-time MTV Movie Award winner Seth Rogen (Knocked Up, This Is The End) stars as Susan - and is also one of the directors and executive producers - and that Future Man was nominated as 2018s Best New Media Superhero Series by The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films.

Binge Future Man, first and only on Showmax in South Africa: https://www.showmax.com/eng/tvseries/yiepowtv-future-man.

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