How many episodes are in Stuart Fails to Save the Universe?

Stuart Fails to Save the Universe has 10 episodes in this listed season.

When does Stuart Fails to Save the Universe premiere?

Stuart Fails to Save the Universe premieres on 2026-07-23.

Is Stuart Fails to Save the Universe a new series?

Stuart Fails to Save the Universe is a new series (Season 1).

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Stuart Fails to Save the Universe(2026)

Also known as Stuart no logra salvar el universo • Stuart no consigue salvar el universo

Archived · HBO Max

7.01610 eps

S01

ComedyScience FictionFantasySci-Fi

ON AIR: JUL 23Season 1Archived listing

What to Expect

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Stuart Fails to Save the Universe runs on a very specific comic premise: the cost of getting things wrong is not embarrassment but civilizational collapse. Time travel, alien invasions, zombies, and paranormal disasters pile up across college campuses, laboratories, and post-apocalyptic wreckage, and the joke is always that the person responsible for fixing things is catastrophically unequal to the job.

Chaos accumulates rather than resolves. Each environment, from a university lab to a dystopian wasteland, arrives with its own genre logic, and the show treats that logic seriously enough to make the incompetence land. The tonal shifts are rapid and deliberate, swinging between sci-fi absurdity and genuine wreckage without pausing to smooth the seams.

Best for

catastrophic failure comedy, time travel mishaps and Comedy

Story lane

Comedy and Science Fiction

Commitment

Season 1 · 10 episodes

Where

HBO Max

Official Premise

Comic book store owner Stuart Bloom, from The Big Bang Theory (2007), returns in a new series where he attempts—and apparently fails

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Start with the closest match, then check out two more shows with a similar feel, pace, mood, or theme.

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Strongest Match

Good Omens keeps the apocalypse funny, and Stuart Fails to Save the Universe does the same by turning cosmic disaster into a string of avoidable messes. You get supernatural characters bickering through end-times errands, while Stuart’s time travel and lab mishaps pile up into escalating, laugh-out-loud failures.

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Why this pick

Rick and Morty and Stuart Fails to Save the Universe both thrive on sci-fi chaos that keeps landing on the wrong person at the worst moment. The frantic multiverse energy and sharp, mean jokes match Stuart’s escalating alien and zombie disasters, where every attempt to fix things makes the next problem bigger and faster.

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Why this pick

Twisted Metal brings loud, post-apocalyptic mayhem, and Stuart Fails to Save the Universe delivers the same kind of kinetic comedy when things go catastrophically wrong. Expect wasteland danger, brutal car-crash humor, and nonstop momentum, paired with Stuart’s lab-to-apocalypse slide where each rescue attempt costs more than the last.

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