Future Man drops a video-game obsessive into a save-the-world mission he never trained for, then plays every beat of it for laughs.
What is Future Man about?
Josh Futturman mops floors by day and spends his nights grinding away at a game nobody has ever finished. Then he finishes it. That single achievement brings two hardened fighters from a ruined tomorrow to his door, convinced that the win proves he is the warrior their era has been waiting for. The problem is that Josh is, by any honest measure, nobody's idea of a soldier. What follows is a time-hopping scramble across decades as the unlikely trio tries to stop a coming catastrophe before the chain of events that causes it is ever set in motion. Josh's total lack of combat skill is matched only by his new partners' total lack of ordinary social sense, and the series milks that mismatch for crude jokes, chase sequences and a steady stream of nods to the science-fiction classics it is cheerfully borrowing from.
About the cast
Josh Hutcherson heads the cast, and the show leans on his ability to look genuinely out of his depth while the chaos piles up around him. Eliza Coupe and Derek Wilson complete the central trio, and the comic engine of the series is the friction between a reluctant civilian and two visitors who treat every situation as a battlefield. The three performers carry most of the screen time, which keeps the focus tight even as the settings keep changing.
Context & significance
Future Man is an American series carrying a 2020 catalogue year, filed under Action, Adventure, Comedy and Sci-Fi, with episodes running around half an hour. Howard Overman is credited at the helm. The half-hour format is unusual for a time-travel story, and the show uses it to keep the pace brisk: each episode tends to land the team in a new period, set up a mission, and let it go wrong. The premise belongs to a long tradition of stories in which an ordinary person is mistaken for a chosen hero, but the tone here is closer to an adult comedy than to a conventional adventure, with language and humour aimed squarely at grown-up viewers.
Watching Future Man on Ktime
Future Man streams on K-Time, where it is available with both a Persian dub and Persian subtitles, so viewers can pick whichever suits them. Watching requires a free K-Time account login, and the Farsi interface makes browsing straightforward for Persian-speaking viewers abroad. The page itself is free to read.