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- Netflix
- Jun 24, 2022
- Netflix
- Jun 24, 2022
Summary Trevor Bingley (Rowan Atkinson) causes chaos in his battles with a bee while housesitting a mansion in this comedy series created by Atkinson and William Davies.
Created By: Rowan Atkinson, William Davies
- Netflix
- Jun 24, 2022
- Netflix
- Jun 24, 2022
Summary Trevor Bingley (Rowan Atkinson) causes chaos in his battles with a bee while housesitting a mansion in this comedy series created by Atkinson and William Davies.
Created By: Rowan Atkinson, William Davies
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Generally Favorable
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
69
50% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
50% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
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It’s smartly produced and directed, and Atkinson as Bingley is much more engaging than Bean, and is still game enough to spend much of his time on screen in his underpants.
Atkinson, by contrast, is intentionally funny in all nine episodes of this sitcom. Atkinson, with his writer Will Davies and director David Kerr, realise that comedy is not tragedy plus time, but stuff plus idiot.
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Mixed or Average
Based on 15 User Ratings
5.2
40% Positive
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27% Mixed
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User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 15 User Ratings
5.2
40% Positive
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
27% Mixed
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
33% Negative
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
You certainly need to be in the mood to laugh at slapstick in order to enjoy Man Vs. Bee. But there is no one on the planet who does slapstick better than Rowan Atkinson, and this series shows off all the skills that have made his career so successful.
Atkinson has lost none of his skill and you will watch it quite happily, but it just lacks the genius of Mr Bean. The set pieces are almost too perfect, with slick production and the feeling that everything has been precision-tooled to deliver a satisfying customer experience.
It is slightly too long (it should probably have been six episodes rather than nine, and the pace lulls in the middle), and certain highly capable comedy actors are completely wasted (Fresh Meat's Greg McHugh is just sort of there). But on the whole it's a diverting, lightweight series which caters to its audience and knows what it's there to do.
Man vs Bee is nothing other than a simple, clownish comedy with zero agenda other than to make people laugh.
A review seems pointless, since if you can read you're already smarter than the target audience.
Man Vs Bee is Atkinson saying that even Mr Bean wasn't aiming low enough. Now the target audience is anyone who will laugh at the same joke, over and over and over again, while their eyes glaze over.
Perhaps you know a drooling imbecile who finds the concept of someone chasing a bee and leaving carnage behind them to be even remotely funny, but if you do then you can probably just leave them to watch one of the many thousands of sketches that have already done this concept to destruction, on a loop. There's nothing new here.
Man Vs Bee is horrible, unwatchable garbage, which will be turned off within a minute or two, by anyone capable of working a remote.
It's a terrible reflection on Netflix and what had appeared to be improving quality control.
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