Apple TV+ ships 75-year-old Eugene Levy off to wisecrack around the world.
is designed to capitalize on its host’s posh personality, sending Levy off into splendid spots across the globe to venture into new cultures, but never too far from the comforts of five-star luxury. That makessort of the anti-adventurer’s adventure. A chic mix of high and low sails through the eight-episode season, every voyage is buoyed by Levy’s consistently hilarious combination of jokes and anxieties.
Levy starts by being shepherded around each location by a local, in some of their favorite modes of transportation. He glides by bluffs in Utah ; he speeds past skyscrapers in Japan ; he soars across islands in the Maldives . But despite Levy’s neuroses, neither he nor any fellow reluctant travelers at home can resist the wondrous beauty to be found at each stop.The series is extravagantly produced and no doubt expensive.
One might think that Levy’s trepidation toward exploring might get old after the third or fourth episode, but both he and the show’s producers continuously find new, interesting ways to outdo themselves. It helps that Levy’s aversions don’t feel the same as, say, your great aunt Kathy’s. He doesn’t march around with the haughty air of a Western colonialist, demanding five-star service and the comforts of North American idleness.
In the Tokyo episode, Levy’s guide is a fellow Canadian from Toronto, who moved to Japan after a lifelong love for the country’s art and way of life. It could be argued here that it would be more informative for both the show’s host and its audience to kick the episode off with a more significant taste of authentic Japanese culture, perhaps with a guide who was born and raised in the country. That’s a perfectly sound dispute, and certainly one of’s misses.
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