HBO Max Releases Teaser for Stuart Fails to Save Universe

HBO Max has released the first teaser trailer for "Stuart Fails to Save the Universe," a new spinoff from "The Big Bang Theory" starring Kevin Sussman as comic book store owner Stuart Bloom. The 10-episode series is set to premiere on July 23 at 9 p.m. ET, with new episodes arriving weekly.

The show follows Stuart after he accidentally breaks a device created by Sheldon Cooper and Leonard Hofstadter, triggering a multiverse Armageddon. Tasked with restoring reality, Stuart teams up with his girlfriend Denise (Lauren Lapkus), geologist friend Bert (Brian Posehn) and quantum physicist Barry Kripke (John Ross Bowie). Along the way, the group encounters alternate-universe versions of familiar "Big Bang Theory" characters, though their efforts do not go smoothly, as the title suggests.

The teaser, unveiled during the Warner Bros. Discovery Upfront presentation in New York, depicts Stuart navigating dystopian realities, including a post-apocalyptic Pasadena ruled by a variant of Barry Kripke as "Supreme Ruler of South Pasadena," a Matrix-inspired world where Stuart escapes a human battery pod, and other chaotic settings with giant moths and zombies. Brief comic book-style glimpses of...