In Kidding, the new Showtime dramedy that re-teams Jim Carrey and Michel Gondry 14 years after Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, family entertainment has a dual meaning. Carrey stars as Jeff Pickles, a children’s television host with Fred Rogers’ lilt and Sesame Street’s merchandising might, who’s become a…
After a slightly bumpy premiere, Lady Dynamite bounces back with a captivating episode, seamlessly constructed and performed, and building on ideas introduced in “Wet Raccoon” without treading tediously over old ground. One of those ideas is Maria’s decision to devote more energy to her home life and new partner, with…
With everyone from John Carpenter to Jamie Lee Curtis on board, the Halloween reboot is now scheduled for an October 19, 2018 release date. David Gordon Green is directing the film, which will set aside the small matter of Laurie Strode’s (Curtis) death in one of the sequels, as well as co-writing it with Danny…
The number of times Andrea Warren (Andrea Savage) mentions podcasting in the early episodes of I’m Sorry feels appropriate. Sitting down at a microphone to yuk it up with likeminded funny people is one of the easiest ways for a contemporary comedian like Andrea to get her name out there—as it has been for her…
Brett Gelman has never been one to shy away from stranger material. In fact, he dives into it—most often with projects of his own creation, like Brett Gelman’s Dinner In America, but also playing odd-duck characters in series like Eagleheart or Another Period. He’s also shown range as more buttoned down and grounded…
Richard Linklater has added a cinematic secret weapon to his latest comedy, Where’d You Go, Bernadette, with Deadline reporting that actress Judy Greer has joined the cast. Greer is something of a favorite around here, injecting shows like Arrested Development and Archer with a comic chaos that rarely gets to shine in…
Who she is: Margaret “Maggie” Lang
Now that she’s no longer (on) Married, Judy Greer’s looking for a new TV commitment—just not a serious one, you know? Something fun, like what she has going with Archer, but isn’t quite as short a stay as her time in Portlandia. And maybe just lets her be herself? According to Deadline, she’s landed just such a role…
You know what’s sad? When a dude used to be a cool white male rock star, and now he’s just a dad. That’s the premise of Ordinary World, the trailer for which was released today. In a bit of meta-casting, Green Day’s Bille Joe Armstrong stars as Perry Miller, a maudlin former band member depressed that he now works at…
TruTV is already home to the freewheeling comedy of Impractical Jokers and Billy On The Street, but the network has started bulking up on scripted programming. It recently picked up Jon Glaser Loves Gear, a hybrid comedy-docuseries that will see the writer-comedian effusing over things on one of the few shows that…
At a certain point, a movie could be about literally anything and still sound interesting if its cast is good enough. For example, indie director Seth Henrikson is making a dramatic comedy starring Ron Perlman, Ian McShane, Judy Greer, Thomas Lennon, Christina Hendricks, and Michael Shannon. Considering how great all…
Seven seasons in, Archer continues to take no prisoners when it comes to its own setting and status quo. Just two years after turning its cast (briefly) into drug dealers, the series has hopped coasts for Los Angeles, and the world of private investigation, for its noir-heavy seventh season. The show’s executive…
Archer creator Adam Reed pulled a fast one (are we still doing “phrasing”?) on Comic-Con attendees in 2015, announcing that a “refresh” had delayed the animated comedy’s seventh season, necessitating the creation of new wardrobe, new weapons, and new surroundings for the…
In what we’re really hoping isn’t the first step in Judy Greer getting subtly shifted into the “straitlaced friend of crazier people” role that’s exerted such a powerful gravitational pull on her entire non-Archer career, Fox has announced that it’s cast Patton Oswalt to star alongside the actress in her new sitcom…
The stars having finally aligned, Deadline is reporting that Judy Greer has somehow accepted a starring role in a sitcom where she won’t playing a long-suffering mom or a friend of the female lead. Instead, Greer—whose only previous outlets for non-mom-com has been the crazy stuff she gets to say on Archer, and…
Utilizing her usual option to be the tenth-billed performer in any project she deems fit to join, Judy Greer will be returning to the Planet Of The Apes franchise for another film about how it’s time for humanity to say goodbye to these. (“These” being The Statue Of Liberty and their place at the top of the planetary…
“Can you believe that after all these episodes we’ve done with him, there are still things we don’t know about Kid Cudi?” In the opening of “Judy Greer Wears A Navy Blouse And Strappy Sandals,” Scott shows the crew last night’s Sporty 4:40, revealing that Cudi was once the most promising hockey player of his…
Despite excellent turns in shows like Arrested Development and Archer, Judy Greer has fallen into an odd niche lately. In Jurassic World, Ant-Man, Masters Of Sex, and Married, Greer plays the long-suffering wife of a frustrating husband. In some of those, that rocky relationship with her husband also impacts her kids,…
“Gymnastics” (season 2, episode 12)
A continuing theme of Married’s second season has been growing up. That might seem like a late game realization for two people in their 40s, but Russ and Lina were introduced as two people who’d put off growing up for as long as humanly possible. Even the inescapable daily reminders of their adulthood—bills,…
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