Around the World in 80 Days (2022)

Matt Roush says...

Like The Amazing Race for the Victorian era, this breezy eight-part adaptation of the globe-trotting Jules Verne classic sends stuffy and cloistered British gentleman Phileas Fogg (David Tennant) on an 1872 odyssey to settle a reckless wager to circumnavigate the Earth with never-before-seen haste. His companions include the mercurial French valet Passepartout (Ibrahim Koma) and fledgling journalist Abigail Fortescue (Leonie Benesch), who knows a good story when she sees one. Just the ticket for those whose wanderlust may have been curtailed these last few years.

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