Shows to watch over christmas break3/14/2023 ![]() The cast, which also includes Andrew Rannells and features Stephen Colbert, Vanessa Williams and Tina Fey in guest roles, is fantastic, as are the many original songs. Girls 5Eva mines a lot of hearty laughs from fame, aging, beauty, show business, sexism, social media influencers, clear plexiglass grand pianos, New York Lonely Boys, and more. He asks them to perform with him on Fallon, and with all of them feeling unfulfilled in their lives, they decide to give the group another go. Created by Meredith Scardino ( The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, The Colbert Report), the series is executive produced by Tina Fey and Robert Carlock and is very much in the joke-a-second mold they pioneered with 30 Rock and continued with Kimmy Schmidt, Great News and Mr Mayor. Sara Bareilles ( Waitress), Renée Elise Goldsberry ( Hamilton), Busy Phillips ( Freaks & Geeks, Cougar Town), and Paula Pell ( SNL, 30 Rock) star as the four surviving members of Girls5Eva, a millennium-era, bargain basement Spice Girls/Destiny's Child who are thrust back together after their sole hit, "Famous 5eva" ("cause forever's too short"), is sampled by chart-topping rapper Lil Stinker. We Are Lady Parts is a terrific new arrangement on some familiar chords. While the one-line description makes We Are Lady Parts sound like it could be a constant stream of hot-button issues - and there is some of that - the word that comes to mind most is "sweet." Creator Nida Manzoor isn't afraid of dusting off well-worn sitcom plotlines, but the jokes, performances and the world in which it's set all feel very fresh, even when the season finale leads to a make-or-break performance at a Battle of the Bands competition. Her eyes and ears are opened by the band, whose members, in a well-executed bit of shorthand, each represent a different archetype. We Are Lady Parts is told mostly from the point of view of the fledgling London group's new lead guitarist, Amina (Anjana Vasan), who is shy, suffers from terrible stage fright, and before joining the band, just wanted to get her PHD in biology and settle down with a good man like a good Muslim girl should. This sitcom about an all-girl Muslim punk band is a real delight. There is a real sense of place that can't be faked, that adds to the charm of one of 2021's best series, new or otherwise. Reservation Dogs also not afraid to take things into surreal/magical realism territory, like an episode involving Native American mythological creature, the Deer Lady. Co-created by Taika Waititi, who imbues the show with the same loose, easygoing charm as his film The Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Reservation Dogs is primarily the vision of filmmaker Steve Harjo, who populates the series with an all indigenous cast and shot the whole thing on location in Oklahoma. ![]() ![]() ![]() But like Atlanta, Reservation Dogs lets its camera wander to other parts of the town and many other residents, all of whom are doing what they have to do to get by. If to do so it means committing some small time crimes to raise money, so be it. This "hangout" of a of a series is ostensibly about group of four indigenous teenagers living in rural Oklahoma who, after the death of one of their friends, dream of escaping their small town for a better life in California.
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