With a leading man you can’t take your eyes off of and an adventure that’ll leave you hovering on the edge of your seat, Nautilus is comfort food at its finest and a classic in the making, one you should force everyone you know to sit down and watch.

“Nautilus” shows the human cost and terrible harm of the Company’s historical power grab. But it’s also a rocking good time, an adventure worthy of its budget, with a set of heroes worthy of our allegiance, attention, and admiration.

Embracing steampunk stylings, “Nautilus” is a serialized, family-friendly adventure with decent special effects.

It may stumble in the home stretch – and it could’ve fleshed out the crew a lot earlier – but in the end, Nautilus rights itself. Some boring storylines for the villains can be forgiven when there are giant eels to fight off.

Nautilus is bold in its changes to Captain Nemo’s story — new monsters, new villains — but imitative to other genre series in execution, and the vibe is a little didactic.

There’s a reason, not entirely financial, that Disney+ jettisoned this flimsy but diverting flotsam after it was already produced.

Latif and Flood are fine, albeit in roles where the script keeps leaving them one or two killer moments short in every episode. Beyond them, the trouble starts.