Man vs. Bee (2022)

Man vs. Bee (2022)

 

4/10

 

Starring

Rowan Atkinson

 

Directed by David Kerr

 

This new Rowan Atkinson project is similar to his work as Mr. Bean. The difference is that this character (Trevor) is crafted as just an unlucky divorcee father who becomes obsessed with little things and loses all sense of decorum for himself, his environment, and the people around him.

Man vs. Bee is the new comedy series on Netflix, which plays like a movie chopped into nine parts of varying lengths, mostly between 10–12 minutes. We get to see Trevor show up at his new job as a house sitter. The same Trevor is having issues with his ex-wife about being unavailable when it comes to their daughter.

Trevor’s mishaps can be seen through the eyes of a man who is just unlucky and gets too obsessed with things he should just overlook. At the start, you’re okay with things falling and catching fire when they should, and him trying to fix things so that he doesn’t get into trouble in the end. Then, you get the feeling this is not new, and you start to guess your way around. The predictability of the first few episodes may be something Atkinson picked up on, so they decide to step things up in a new way.

They took his total lack of care for his environment up a notch to the point where it becomes unrealistic.

Who cares about a clumsy fellow? Here comes the wrecking ball of a human. I get that this comedy is not meant to be realistic, but the clumsy and silly nature, which was predictable, is better than the unrealistic nature of his being. It was like they threw caution to the wind and did things I couldn’t believe anyone— even someone like him in real life—would be able to do.

This man went crazy trying to kill a bee. After he was left to care for the home with all the codes and needed gestures to manage this modern house, Trevor had a bee fly in as a visitor. He chased it with everything he could lay his hands on, resulting in him burning the house, destroying a car, trashing the paintings, and almost killing a dog.

In the end, even though I didn’t hate the ride, I think this series wasn’t a step up from the Mr. Bean character but more like the Johnny English character, just not as good.

You can take a dive into this movie/series—it’s about 90 minutes long in total, so you can just run through it like you're watching a movie.