New sci-fi comedy series available on Showmax

an American comedy series starring Josh Hutcherson, is now available for streaming on Showmax.

MTV, Teen Choice and People’s Choice winner Hutcherson stars as Josh Futturman, a caretaker whose only claim to fame is his skill at Biotic Wars, a dystopian video game so difficult that everyone else has given up.

When he finally beats the game, its two main characters, Tiger (Eliza Coupe from

and Wolf (Derek Wilson from arrive from the future and explain the video game is not just an accurate portrait of what’s to come but also a recruitment video.

As the only player to finish the game, they believe Josh is the only person who can prevent the extinction of the human race.

But some heroes are born; others

What follows is a time-travelling fish-out-of-water comedy, where Josh is as hopelessly unprepared to be a military hero and to blend into any era that values human life, as are Tiger and Wolf. are chosen … by mistake.

“Aren’t people playing video games supposed to embody the skills of their online personas?” asks a clearly frustrated Tiger in the first episode. “No,” Josh says. “It’s the complete opposite.”

has an 82% critics score and an 88% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, with the critics’ consensus saying “its nostalgia-driven premise is elevated by the cast’s compelling chemistry and a sense of humour just dumb enough to lighten the sci-fi load”. Emmy winner Keith David

Oscar nominee Joel Osment Haley

but now all grown up with a wild beard) and Britt Lower co-star as Josh’s co-workers at a lab trying to develop a cure for herpes. Golden Globe nominee Ed Begley Jr

and Emmy nominee Glenne Headly

who sadly passed away in June 2017, play Josh’s parents. The New York Times called

a “soft-hearted, foul-mouthed, highly selfaware science-fiction spoof that glories in pop-culture plagiarism”, while Forbes labelled it “an insane, tongue-in-cheek 80s homage”.