Rowan Atkinson has been leaving fans in stitches since the 1980s when he first started starring in the ever-changing sitcom Blackadder. For five years at the turn of the next decade, Atkinson went on the create the character of Mr Bean who many know him best for. Forever wanting to make viewers laugh, the actor’s new Netflix series, Man vs Bee, is as simple and hilariously ridiculous as it sounds.
WARNING: This article contains spoilers from Man vs Bee.
Rowan Atkinson’s first ever television appearance was on the satirical show Not the Nine O’Clock News in 1979.
Just two years later and he became the youngest person at the time to have had a one-man show in the West End.
His big film career break happened in 1983 when he had a supporting role in the “unofficial” James Bond movie Never Say Never Again.
In that same year, he had a leading role in Dead on Time with Nigel Hawthorne and Blackadder’s first series made its big debut.
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Speaking about the concept of the comedy show to What to Watch, he said: “We started with the basic idea of this man, Trevor, being stuck in a house for a week with a bee, but then you can think of endless mini-sketches of how Trevor would interact with it.
“We carefully constructed the episodes, so that each one ended on a cliffhanger, which engages viewers to click through to the next episode.
“It’s a TV series but, at 100 minutes, I regard it more as a movie.
“People can either binge-watch it or watch in bite-sized 10 and 20-minute chunks.”
