Apple TV+'s series inspired by the 1981 Terry Gilliam movie was created by Taika Waititi, Jemaine Clement, and Iain Morris, and stars Lisa Kudrow. It premieres today, July 24.
, and now, at long last, the show has finally arrived. Were its time-travel hijinks worth the wait? Yes… and no.
It all depends on how you feel about the many other projects involving Waititi and his frequent collaborators Jemaine Clement and Iain Morris. The trio co-created theseries, co-writing or writing multiple episodes; Waititi also directed the first two. In addition, Waititi and Clement play key supporting roles: the former is the Supreme Being , the latter is Pure Evil .
This means that each episode finds the gang leaping from era to era, encountering a wide range of cultures where nearly everyone is similarly wry and offbeat. This leads to moments like the builder of the Great Wall of China saying “That’s so frickin’ cool!”, or a 14th century villager dismissing the Black Plague using language that sounds lifted from a covid denier’s Facebook post.
There’s also more time to develop the characters—Kevin has a sister, Saffron , who has a cool storyline of her own, and we learn a lot more about their parents than we ever do in the movie. We also get to know the bandit ensemble as individuals, though it takes a few episodes to really settle in with them.
Other key characters, alongside Waititi’s Supreme Being and Clement’s Pure Evil , include Rachel House as the demonic hunter Fianna—and of course an array of guest stars, including a fan-favorite we won’t spoil fromworks in bigger arcs involving Kevin’s increasingly urgent need to find his way back to present-day England, as well as the push-and-pull between the cosmic beings.
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