The eight-episode season keeps the focus on the group. Peacock’s “Rutherford Falls” stars Ed Helms as a good man with a big blind spot: He believes history is to be celebrated rather than examined. Television A groundbreaking sitcom finds the ideal target: white people’s love of a made-up past “I’ve tried out for the ‘Housewives,’ like, eight times,” she tells Dawn, but the Housewives would eat her alive. caused one of his eyes to atrophy and turn inward,” and who she sees only once a month the rest of the time he is in Tampa, working as an entertainment reporter and living a life of which she is critically unconscious. Summer (Philipps) is “The Hot One,” an arrangement of weaponized hair and makeup, married to Kevin ( Andrew Rannells, also of Broadway, and TV and film), a former boy band member whose “swoopy boy band hair. Mayor,” with Ted Danson in the title role.īareilles plays Dawn, “The Chill One,” settled down with a regular-guy husband (Daniel Breaker, from the Broadway stage) and a slightly irregular child, working in a restaurant for her brother (Dean Winters, Liz Lemon’s lunkhead sometime love interest on “30 Rock”). Tina Fey and Robert Carlock, creators of “30 Rock” and “Kimmy Schmidt,” move operations west in the L.A.-based “Mr. Mayor’ is an outsider’s comedy about L.A. When a sample of their hit, “Famous 5eva” - “Gonna be famous 5eva / ‘Cause forever’s too short” - surfaces in a young artist’s new song, the surviving members of Girls5eva are drawn back into one another’s orbit. (“We’ve been best friends ever since we auditioned for a man in a motel in New Jersey,” Goldsberry’s character, Wickie, declares in an old “TRL” interview.). The model is the Spice Girls and their casting-call ilk. At once biting and heartwarming, it may mock its characters but never their feelings, of which they have many. Mayor,” renewed for a second season on NBC - it is a hodgepodge of real feeling and cartoon rhythms, deadpan reactions to crazy stuff and meltdowns over nothing, surrealist throwaways and pop-cultural satire. Like other shows in the Fey-Carlock canon - “30 Rock,” “ The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” the much-improved “ Mr. In “Girls5eva,” the latest sitcom to emerge from the Tina Fey-Robert Carlock combine, Sara Bareilles, Busy Philipps, Paula Pell and Renée Elise Goldsberry play the members of a briefly famous ‘90s girl group who fate, if not the public, calls to reunite.
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