If there was one character from The Office I never expected to see wandering into another workplace documentary, it was Oscar Martinez. Not because Oscar doesn’t belong in a workplace comedy — honestly, he might be one of the best characters to carry one — but because he always seemed far too sensible to volunteer…
If you told me a few years ago that I would get genuinely excited about another workplace comedy set in the world of The Office, I probably would have rolled my eyes. That show is one of those rare sitcoms that feels impossible to recreate. You can copy the mockumentary format, throw a bunch of…
If you watched Chad Powers and found yourself wondering whether the South Georgia Catfish actually exist, I honestly can’t blame you. The show pulls off something that sports comedies rarely manage: it makes a completely fictional college football program feel like a team you somehow forgot to hear about. The uniforms look right. The stadium…
There is something wonderfully ridiculous about watching Glen Powell, one of Hollywood’s most recognizable leading men, walk onto a football field looking like somebody’s weird cousin who somehow wandered into a college sports drama. That is exactly why the Chad Powers transformation works. The Hulu sports comedy could have taken the easy route and turned…
There is something wonderfully dangerous about The Gentlemen. One minute you’re watching an impeccably dressed British aristocrat worry about his family’s estate, and the next you’re knee-deep in a criminal empire involving marijuana, rival gangsters, bizarre millionaires, and people who seem to solve every disagreement with a gun. That is exactly why the question surrounding…
If there is one thing The Gentlemen knows how to do besides making crime look ridiculously stylish, it is throwing a completely unexpected person into the middle of a criminal mess and watching everything explode. That is exactly why the casting news surrounding The Gentlemen Season 2 has me so interested. Netflix is bringing Guy…