NAUTILUS Sets Out With Humility in a Double-Decker Sneak Peek of Its Premiere

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24-06-2025

In AMC/AMC+'s Nautilus, Jules Verne's best-known protagonist takes to the sea and its depths, seeking revenge on the forces that stripped him of his birthright, family, and freedom. Starring Shazad Latif as Captain Nemo, the 10-episode series promises sweeping ocean vistas, gripping battles, and no shortage of tight squeezes.
The series premieres on June 29 with its first two episodes, 'Anahata' and 'Tick, Tick, Boom,' in which Nemo picks up a prototype submarine and a secretive engineer, respectively. For your consideration, we present two sneak peek clips, one from each of the premiere event's episodes. Image Credit: Courtesy of AMC/AMC+ Nautilus, 'Anahata'
Anahata is the heart chakra and translates to 'unhurt, unstruck, or unbeaten,' in Sanskrit. A positive note to kick off a series featuring a motley bunch of enslaved inmates stealing the submarine they're building under duress.
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In the clip from 'Anahata,' they risk it all to escape with Nemo at the helm. Now, not to guess wildly at the crew's teambuilding potential, but based on the expressions on their faces as he scrapes the sub through some narrow passages, his plan was the lesser of two evils. Even Nemo doesn't look all that confident about their survival. Nautilus, 'Tick, Tick, Boom'
Now that they've got a submarine, they'll need some complications. First up, Miss Humility Lucas (Georgia Flood), a trained engineer, scientist, and liar. We learn from the 'Tick, Tick, Boom' clip that she got herself aboard through ignoble means, and Nemo feels she's too valuable to allow to leave.
Of course, she's playing him for reasons yet unknown. Whether he knows it or not remains to be seen. Her relationship with Loti (Céline Menville) echoes his with Benoit (Thierry Frémont). As per usual, the secondary characters see things more clearly than those in the thick of it.
How Miss Lucas's skills figure into the operations of the sub will be a fascinating twist to the literary source material. Meanwhile, she and Nemo are clearly meant to butt heads for… reasons. Can we feel the claustrophobia setting in already? After all, the central trope of submarine shows is that you really can't get away from other people, no matter how much your survival (or theirs) depends on it. But the question is how much a clever, attractive woman can distract a man bent on vengeance.
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Fun fact: neither Latif nor Flood is a stranger to literary adaptations. In 2016, Latif portrayed Henry Jekyll (of Jekyll and Hyde infamy) in Showtime's Penny Dreadful Season 3. Last year, Floor took on the role of Savannah Pagonis on Peacock's adaptation of Liane Moriarty's Apples Never Fall .
Nautilus premieres on AMC and AMC+ starting Sunday, June 29.
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