Imagine a less cynical Arrested Development crossed with an inverted Beverly Hillbillies, and you’re close to Schitt’s Creek-one of the most joyful shows on all of television. The ensemble is backed up by consistently sharp writing, strong direction and spot-on editing that made New Girl such a laugh-out-loud bananas treat – and one that never stopped evolving to embrace the strengths of its performers. They’re all outstanding and they all deserve to have breakout careers now that the show is over. They even figured out what to do with Hannah Simone in the end, allowing the model BFF to embrace her power and let her freak flag fly.
Zooey Deschanel always goes full-throttle for the joke (even when the writers lead her character down some frustrating avenues), Jake Johnson walks an outstanding line between the straight man and blustering fool, line-reading king Max Greenfield crafted one of the best all-time supporting sitcom characters in Schmidt, and Lamorne Morris grew funnier by the episode in his wide-eyed embrace of the absurd. That’s because the ensemble cast is always one-upping each other and feeding of each other's energy. No matter where you look in any New Girl scene, you can bet you’re going to need to watch it a few more times to pick up all the comedic beats. Liz Merriwether's Fox comedy featured one of the best casts of wall-to-wall MVPs on TV. In the pantheon of twenty-something hangout sitcoms, New Girl has never gotten enough credit. It's all done in a rather cute, accessible, and charming way, even when it verges into the darkly comic (and it helps that Peter Serafinowicz is endearingly likable, even as King Cragnor the Heartless.) So if you need an escape from the current reality and want to trip into the distant, dirty past with a group of lovable losers, Miracle Workers: Dark Ages should be on your radar. Dark Ages is, after all, a comedy, and there's much to be mined here in a sort of Monty Python-esque approach to this time period. But the medieval and at times Machiavellian setting acts as a perfect backdrop to our down-to-Earth characters with big hearts, pure souls, and a strong moral compass, even if their knowledge is limited by the ignorance of their time. Yeah, that doesn't really narrow it down, does it? Okay, it takes place within the millennium between roughly 500 AD and 1500 AD.
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Miracle Workers: Dark Ages is poised to be a good replacement for series like The Good Place and Parks and Recreation, and you can get in on the current season airing right now!ĭark Ages takes place, you guessed it, during that time in human history where science and common sense took a backseat to superstition, brutality, and the upper class treating the working class and impoverished citizens like less than dirt. TBS's anthology series from Simon Rich ( Man Seeking Woman) sees Daniel Radcliffe, Steve Buscemi, Geraldine Viswanathan, Karan Soni, Lolly Adefope, and Jon Bass taking on diverse roles season to season in what has become one of the best feel-good shows on TV today.
Luckily, Miracle Workers chilled out on the world-ending stuff a bit in its second season, Dark Ages. On the surface, a story about the impending apocalypse and a disaffected God's lack of concern with averting it might not be the best show to soothe rattled nerves.