A Date with Destiny

The first season of Future Man comes to a conclusion with the last-ditch effort from Josh, Tiger and Wolf to change the future (without killing Keith David's Elias Kronish) in an increasingly complicated timeline. I really respect the fact that this key goal and storyline has been in place since the beginning of the show, with every episode advancing the plot for the most part and character development and reoccurring subplots thrown in along the way. This has definitely served the story much better than if the episodes were more self-contained, focused parodies of certain sci-fi properties - although the James Cameron related 'Pandora's Mailbox' episode did stand out in a great way with its imaginative story and set pieces, I don't think thirteen episodes that took similar risks would have ended up well. However, while a single primary story has meant that we've seen great character moments and comedic payoffs, there is a feeling that we might have seen the best of this situation already, as the finale is good but isn't as creative and entertaining as my favourite episodes of the season: 'Operation: Fatal Attraction' and 'Operation: Natal Attraction'. With this in mind, I fully commend the direction of the story, but I hope Season 2 has a greater focus either on alternate timelines or on escalating the complications and the stakes.

As for the finale specifically, I enjoyed the parallels between Jo(o)sh's real life and the visuals of the Biotic Wars game, the action and soundtrack are great, it's always fun to see the same actors playing different versions of the same character every time the timeline is changed - and here the reoccurring guest actors of Keith David, Haley Joel Osment and Ed Begley Jr. provide once more. David deserves a special mention for the evolution of Kronish's character as a plot point and a potential antagonist; we have literally seen most of his life in multiple timelines at the end of the first season, and this is greatly capitalized upon in this episode. The concluding story arcs of the three main characters in addition feel natural and really help the viewer to grow attached to them. The comedy is a little weaker than usual, but I think this is appropriate given the story has grown beyond a comedic premise at this point. If there was anything I didn't love, it was the outcome of the team being sent back in this new timeline - a set-up that was pretty clever given that actually serious sci-fi properties have blatantly ignored plot points such as this before.

Overall, a good episode and a great first season. I am impressed with the writers' ability to parody sci-fi tropes and cult classics while simultaneously creating smart, unique concepts and answers to questions in the plot. The one aspect never infringes upon the other, and its clear there's a lot of love and knowledge for science fiction and cinema behind the scenes. I'm looking forward to moving forward: to the Future, man...

Watched the 13 episodes over two days ,, and i just loved each and every moment of it ... the plot is so solid ,, and that usually happen when they have a full on already shot shows ,, we all agree the idea of the show is not really that genuine but here they added their own fun/action style and it all came out just the way i love it , a perfect mix of comedy and Sci-Fi ,., and you can notice clearly that Seth Rogen taste of directing, bravo.

I gotta give it to the writers Kyle Hunter and Ariel Shaffir they both worked with Seth on "Sausage party" and they are all a "Comedy Central" graduates so it is expected that the the script will turn out to be as good as this ,, so full of comedy mixed with tension and action, irony and sarcasm.. and as i mentioned it was all connected and easily fathomable.

As for the cast,, "Standing O" for Josh Hutcherson , i have always looked at him just as that kid from Journey or as "Peeta" , but no more !!! he excelled the tense comedy and here with Eliza Coupe and Derek Wilson they made the perfect trio , they all need more credit.

so as a conclusion i hope you enjoyed it as much as i did .. now the question is there a second season !! since the last scene was kinda like "Oh it's happening" .. \/\/\/

Hulu picked up a full 13 episode season of Future Man back on September 2016, but it's taken until now for the series to debut. So that's a long production cycle, it means if Future Man is renewed right away, it could be over a year before the series is on TV. But it all depends on the Actors schedules and not forgetting that executive producers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg are two of Hollywood's most successful comedic writers, so certainly they'll have more projects to pay attention to in the next year.

Though I almost gave up on it a couple of times in the early episodes, I did in the end stick with Futureman throughout this whole run. On the whole I'm just about glad that I stuck with it to completion, though I concede that there's some room for improvement.

The story revolves around Josh Futterman (Josh Hutcherson) a janitor at a medical research lab who becomes the first person in human history to complete particular video game. But it's no ordinary game, it's a test sent back through time to find "Futureman" a hero who can wipe clean a dystopian future. Two soldiers Tiger (Eliza Coupe) and Wolf (Derek Wilson) are sent back to locate Futureman, and recruit him to they're cause.

A lot of my decision to keep with "Futureman" came from the good feeling that Howard Overman has from me for his previous creations "Misfits" and "Crazyhead". Like those shows, "Futureman" mixes some genre stylings with some examination of human personal failings, although it should be said, it is a comedy, and an extraordinarily broad comedy at that. Unfortunately, therein lies the principle problem with "Futureman", it's not always a particularly funny comedy. I think it's because it never quite nails what sort of comedy it's trying to be, at times firing at period comedy, with trips to the 60's and 80's, sometimes spoofing Time Travel films and science fiction plots, with "The Terminator" and "Back To The Future" being influences and occasionally hitting straight at the gross out comedies, with violence, drug taking and sex content. Patchy, is a good description.

It's better in other areas though. The storyline is clever and both manages to avoid repetition and, at 13 episodes doesn't outstay its welcome. I liked how the time travel changes effected the present day and how the characters personalities changed over the course of the series. Special effects we're usually pretty good as were performances.

Decent but not the absolute top tier, I'll still be back for the second season.