Man vs. Bee

TV show · 2022

A nine-episode Netflix miniseries in which bumbling house-sitter Trevor (Rowan Atkinson) wages an increasingly disastrous war against a single bee, resulting in escalating slapstick destruction of a luxury mansion. The humour is very much in the Mr. Bean tradition: physical, wordless-ish comedy with pratfalls, explosions, and cartoonish chaos, all played for laughs.

Most comfortable for kids around 7 and up who enjoy broad physical comedy and can handle mild cartoon peril; younger sensitive viewers may find the escalating destruction a bit much.

Scary imageryPeril & tensionViolenceBehavior modeledLoud or startling soundsDrinking, drugs & smoking

Episodes to know about

Behavior modeledS1E3Mild

A bee entering Trevor's trousers leads to frantic hand movements that carry an unintentional adult visual gag; most young children will simply see frantic flailing.

ViolenceS1E4Mild

Trevor falls into dog excrement; gross-out slapstick played entirely for laughs.

Violencerecurring across the seriesMild

The family dog is caught in several of Trevor's failed traps and shown getting hurt in comedic, consequence-free ways; animal-loving children may not find this funny.

4 more moments are in the full report. See all of them, checked against your own family’s settings, in Little Longer.