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NAUTILUS 'Cold War' Sneak Peek Defies Pitt's Meet-Cute Plans
Things get frosty on Nautilus Season 1 Episode 7, 'Cold War,' when Humility Lucas (Georgia Flood) finds her fiancé, Algernon Pitt (Cameron Cuffe), with Captain Youngblood (Jacob Collins-Levy) in the Arctic. Considering how far she's gone to escape him and their engagement, Pitt's clearly a special kind of clueless. AMC/AMC+ summarizes the episode as: A game of chicken between the Dreadnought and Nautilus leaves them both stranded in the Arctic ice, leading to an uneasy truce. Nemo is reunited with a friend from his past and rocked by further revelations about his father. Image Credit: AMC/AMC+ Nautilus, 'Cold War' In the sneak peek at the episode below, Humility first greets Captain Youngblood with inordinate warmth in light of his dogged pursuit of her and the Nautilus. There's even humor and good-natured ribbing in their interaction. Standing in the blizzard conditions of the Arctic, she congratulates him on making it safely to Bombay. RELATED: TV Review: Nautilus Episode 6, 'Big Blue' Suddenly, there's Algernon Pitt, butting in and making flowery comments about her appearance. He has a script in mind for their relationship. None of it is rooted in the reality of her life goals or their complete lack of connection. It's physically painful to watch. She counters his compliments with pragmatism, his pleasantries with disinterest. Their chemistry measures at absolute zero. Image Credit: AMC/AMC+ He dismisses her concerns about freezing solid in the ice as dramatics. Instead, he insists that she tuck into the spread of food he's had prepared for her. Of course, Blaster (Kayden Price) and Loti (Céline Menville) are happy to oblige. However, Humility can't be deterred. RELATED: Read our Nautilus reviews Humility wastes no words or time trying to correct Pitt's priorities, but, unfortunately, Pitt's too deeply dug into his vision of their life together to understand. As she drags him to the ship's forge as the scene ends, we can only hope he figures things out before she shoves him in. Nautilus airs every Sunday on AMC and AMC+. BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER Reboot Brings Kingston Vernes on Board Diana lives in Vancouver, BC, Canada, where she invests her time and energy in teaching, writing, parenting, and indulging her love of all Trek and a myriad of other fandoms. She is a lifelong fan of smart sci-fi and fantasy media, an upstanding citizen of the United Federation of Planets, and a supporter of AFC Richmond 'til she dies. Her guilty pleasures include female-led procedurals, old-school sitcoms, and Bluey. She teaches, knits, and dreams big. You can also find her writing at The Televixen, Women at Warp, TV Fanatic, and TV Goodness.
Geek Girl Authority
05-07-2025
- Entertainment
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NAUTILUS Episode 3 Sneak Peek Clip: Humility Makes Plans
On the next episode of AMC/AMC+'s Nautilus, 'What Lies Beneath,' we learn more about Georgia Flood's Humility Lucas and her ambitions. As an interloper on Nemo's (Shazad Latif) crew, filling in the corners of her story is key to understanding why she's so determined to stay on board the Nautilus. RELATED: TV Review: Nautilus Series Premiere The sneak peek clip below flashes back to a younger Humility, trapped in an engagement and herded by society towards a future she cannot abide. In the close quarters of a carriage, she proposes a plan to the curiously agreeable White Rajah (Richard E. Grant). He fleshes out the particulars of her travels as they approach his residence. Image Credit: Courtesy of AMC/AMC+ Nautilus, 'What Lies Beneath' As little as we know about Humility Lucas, we know even less about this White Rajah besides the fact that his name conjures images of the worst aspects of the British presence in South Asia. His home is luxurious, and his guests have servants assigned to see to their needs. In the clip, Humility has a conversation with a servant girl named Amalmus. Not sure how someone named Humility gets to comment on how funny anyone's name is, but it seems to build a rapport. Image Credit: Courtesy of AMC/AMC+ Real life catches up with Humility just as she and the White Rajah are about to go in for dinner. Accompanied by soldiers, Loti (Céline Menville) bursts in. Looks like she's more than Humility's accomplice. Possibly a governess? Or jailer? RELATED: AMC's Anne Rice's Immortal Universe Talamasca Series Casts Its Lead The synopsis of 'What Lies Beneath' draws together past and present. ' In Karajaan, the crew meets the eccentric White Rajah (Richard E. Grant), but can they trust his hospitality? Nemo discovers a shocking truth, and Humility and the crew learn who Nemo really is .' If Humility has a history with the White Rajah, and Nemo's crew are now in his power, did he send her to the Nautilus? New episodes of Nautilus air on AMC and AMC+ at 9 pm ET/PT on Sundays. 'What Lies Beneath' drops on July 6. 6 Great Historical Fiction Novels Focused on Real Women From History Diana lives in Vancouver, BC, Canada, where she invests her time and energy in teaching, writing, parenting, and indulging her love of all Trek and a myriad of other fandoms. She is a lifelong fan of smart sci-fi and fantasy media, an upstanding citizen of the United Federation of Planets, and a supporter of AFC Richmond 'til she dies. Her guilty pleasures include female-led procedurals, old-school sitcoms, and Bluey. She teaches, knits, and dreams big. You can also find her writing at The Televixen, Women at Warp, TV Fanatic, and TV Goodness.
Geek Girl Authority
24-06-2025
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NAUTILUS Sets Out With Humility in a Double-Decker Sneak Peek of Its Premiere
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. RELATED: TV Review: Nautilus Series Premiere 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. RELATED: 6 Great Historical Fiction Novels Focused on Real Women From History Image Credit: Courtesy of AMC/AMC+ 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. 6 Book Recommendations if You Loved OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH Diana lives in Vancouver, BC, Canada, where she invests her time and energy in teaching, writing, parenting, and indulging her love of all Trek and a myriad of other fandoms. She is a lifelong fan of smart sci-fi and fantasy media, an upstanding citizen of the United Federation of Planets, and a supporter of AFC Richmond 'til she dies. Her guilty pleasures include female-led procedurals, old-school sitcoms, and Bluey. She teaches, knits, and dreams big. You can also find her writing at The Televixen, Women at Warp, TV Fanatic, and TV Goodness.
Geek Girl Authority
19-06-2025
- Entertainment
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TV Review: NAUTILUS Series Premiere
A new adaptation of Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea sails on to our screens. AMC and AMC+ debut the 10-episode series, Nautilus , with a different take on the classic science-fiction story. Get ready for a rip-roaring adventure under the seas, with a cast of colorful characters, set against the backdrop of Imperial treachery. Poster of AMC's Nautilus, featuring Shazad Latif, Georgia Flood, Thierry Fremont, and Tyrone Ngatai. Image courtesy AMC/AMC+ About Nautilus In its two-episode premiere, Nautilus introduces us to our protagonists, the enigmatic and very wronged Nemo (Shazad Latif), the fiery Humility Lucas (Georgia Flood), as well as beleaguered scientist and engineer behind the creation of the titular submarine, Benoit (Thierry Fremont). RELATED: Everything Coming to Netflix in June 2025 Alongside these characters are two lots of supporting casts — there are a bunch of East India Mercantile Company men who are after Nemo, and then there's the Nautilus crew, made up mostly of formerly enslaved men from numerous nations including Boniface (Pacharo Mzembe) and Kai (Tyrone Ngatai), as well as Humility's aid Loti (Céline Menville), and young Blaster (Kayden Price) who was an errand boy on a Company ship. Nautilus throws the viewer into the action almost from the get-go. It's 1857, and the East India Mercantile Company has pillaged and plundered nations around the world. We're introduced to Nemo, a prisoner of the EIMC. He's been plotting an escape with a few of the other 'convicts,' and when an opportunity presents itself, a group of them take control of the Nautilus and escape. RELATED: AMC's Anne Rice's Immortal Universe Talamasca Series Casts Its Lead During their escape, Nemo spots a Company ship. Fearing an attack, Nemo attacks first, and that's how he meets Humility. She's sailing to meet her fiancé in Bombay, and chafes against the sexist rules of the era. Luckily, albeit involuntarily, she soon gets her wish to postpone her marriage by joining the Nautilus adventure. But the underwater crew's travails don't end there. Nemo is out for vengeance, and the crew struggles with his wayward demands. The crew isn't trained to run a submarine either, which makes repairs and perils all the more hazardous. And, of course, the EIMC wants their submarine back, Nemo gone, and Humility returned to her fiancé. How Nautilus Departs From the Book Adaptations always take liberties with the source material. It's a necessity in many ways — because of the medium of story, the sensibilities of the time, and to keep audiences interested. Nautilus is no different. The cast of characters doesn't resemble the original books. RELATED: Read our Interview with the Vampire recaps The upside is, we have characters from different origins and ethnicities, plus three female characters, all of whom have a role to play in the proceedings. It's especially great to see Nautilus lean into Nemo's Indian origins. Shazad Latif is a British actor who has Pakistani heritage. I'm glad that Nautilus doesn't shy away from the anti-Imperialism commentary of the original book and its sequel, The Mysterious Island . It's not a coincidence that the show begins in 1857, the year India rebelled against the East India Company. The show begins with a rebellion that sets of the proceedings. RELATED: Yellowjackets Lets Women Be Angry Captain Nemo What doesn't work in Nautilus are some of the choices around Nemo. In the book, he is introduced as a mysterious scientist and engineer, the wealthy creator of the Nautilus who seeks vengeance and has a love for exploration. The show chooses to introduce Nemo as disheveled and captive, which plants the foundation for his vengeance, but also robs him of his grandeur. We've seen many characters of color introduced in pop culture this way, and the whole point of book-Nemo is that he subverts that assumption. RELATED: 6 Book Recommendations if You Love Our Flag Means Death The other issue is that Nemo isn't the creator of the Nautilus. Not directly — he has to feed information to Benoit. Once again, that strips away the agency Nemo had in the book. Nemo's supposed to be a great engineer and futurist, yet in the first episode of Nautilus , he can't fix his own ship. Nemo keeps turning to Humility for engineering help. Now, it's fantastic to have a female character flexing her STEM skills, especially in a period show. But Humility's smarts come at the cost of Nemo's brilliance. This type of trope-subversion is humorous when the characters are evenly matched in status. But Nemo is a man of color; he doesn't need to be shown up by a white person, even if she's a woman who is undermined by her own people. A Rollicking Adventure The other major criticism is the presentation of the EIMC. All the Company men are so cartoonishly evil. You can't take them seriously. I'd argue that's the point, but they're such a yawn-worthy intrusion away from the crew of the Nautilus. RELATED: The Best Moments From Every Episode of Our Flag Means Death While these issues will grate on some viewers (like myself), the first two episodes were a lot of fun. Nautilus evokes the fun of first watching Pirates of the Caribbean (with seemingly less problematic people involved) and Our Flag Means Death . It's not quite as irreverent as those properties, but it captures the tension and spectacle of traveling the high seas. The sets of the Nautilus are particularly arresting. The gorgeous steampunk machinery is exactly how one expects the Nautilus to look. However, the CGI water and animals should have been more vividly rendered — they're a tad flat against the practical sets of the submarine. RELATED: Movie Review: Sinners The first two episodes end on cliffhangers, and I am champing at the bit to watch the rest. The weekly rollout is going to be deliciously painful. The tensions of the plot are multi-fold. All the characters have different motivations and end goals; these pull them in different directions, all while they're trapped in a restrictive environment. There's the additional stress of being chased by the EIMC while chasing vengeance. And, of course, the sea is a character all on its own, being as unpredictable as can be. RELATED: 6 Great Historical Fiction Novels Focused on Real Women From History Fortunately, the show undercuts the tensions with silly humor that inveigles its way in at the most needed moments. Nautilus may not be perfect, but the premiere promises a rollicking good romp, with flawed characters and dark backstories. This show is definitely worth hopping aboard for. Nautilus premieres on AMC and AMC+ starting Sunday, June 29. Book Review: JUST EMILIA Monita has been championing diversity, inclusivity, and representation in entertainment media through her work for over a decade. She is a contributor at Bam Smack Pow, and her bylines have appeared on 3-time Eisner Award-winning publication Women Write About Comics, Geek Girl Authority, HuffPost, (formerly Soundsphere/Screensphere, FanSided's Show Snob, and Vocal. She was also a TV/Movies features writer at Alongside her twin, Monita co-hosts the pop culture podcast Stereo Geeks.
