Apple TV+'s Time Bandits remake is an addictively fun, lighthearted sci-fi adventure series. Its first two episodes are available to stream now.
Time Bandits Score Details “Apple TV+'s Time Bandits remake is an addictively fun, lighthearted sci-fi adventure series.” Pros Cons Apple TV+‘s Time Bandits will make you nostalgic for a time that has long past, and not one of pirates, sultans, or walking woolly mammoths. The new series is, like so many other high-profile genre TV titles of the past few years, a remake.
Like the film that inspired it, Time Bandits follows a young boy named Kevin . Obsessed with history, Kevin isn’t very popular with his classmates or his family. His parents desperately want him to turn his head away from the pages of his history books and toward the electronic screen of the smartphone they bought him, while his sister, Saffron , wastes few opportunities to make fun of him and his interests.
For Kevin, the chance to go to places and times like Ancient Greece and Medieval England is a dream come true. For Penelope and the rest of the Bandits, it’s simply an opportunity to make their mark on history by stealing as much as they can from everywhere they visit. Time Bandits predictably mines plenty of comedy from the clash between Kevin’s wide-eyed, wholesome joy and his companions’ more mercenary impulses.
As much as it may fashion itself as an ensemble comedy, though, not all of Time Bandits‘ characters and performances strike as strong of a chord as others. A recurring gag involving Alto , one of Penelope’s fellow bandits, and his dreams of becoming a professional actor never quite lands, and it proves to be a particularly distracting and unrewarding subplot in one otherwise standout midseason episode involving historical figures like the 4th Earl of Sandwich and Casanova.
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