Nautilus

Matt Roush says...

This enjoyably cheesy underwater adventure, loosely based on Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, feels like a throwback to an earlier era of harmless escapism, a time when kids like me were enthralled with shows like Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and even Lost in Space. (This 19th-century submarine’s crew has its own version of a Will Robinson character — and an adorable dog sidekick for eye — rolling cutaways.) Star Trek: Discovery‘s Shazad Latif stars as Captain Nemo, an enslaved Indian prince who steals the Nautilus in a mission to take down the rapacious East India Mercantile Company that destroyed his family. His allies include a spunky female scientist, the anything-but-humble Humility Lucas (Georgia Flood). This is my inner 10-year-old’s favorite new show. Launches with two episodes.

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