“Thunder Force” is nearly half over before the action-comedy lands on a real joke: the introduction of co-star Jason Bateman as a half-superhero mutant with crab arms instead of human appendages. Jokes aside, Bateman’s “The Crab” also makes for a good foil to the eponymous Thunder Force, a pair of unexpected crime fighters who have emerged to battle the supervillain crime wave that has consumed the world since their childhood. They need all the help (or hurt) they can get.
Melissa McCarthy as lovable loser Lydia (Aka The Hammer) and Octavia Spencer as her super-smart former Bff Emily (Aka Bingo) are only on their first mission when they meet The Crab, and their do-gooding is soon upended by the career criminals they’re intent on stopping. And then, suddenly, weirdly, Lydia and The Crab connect, kicking off a dream sequence in which these two outsiders dance and twirl and...
Melissa McCarthy as lovable loser Lydia (Aka The Hammer) and Octavia Spencer as her super-smart former Bff Emily (Aka Bingo) are only on their first mission when they meet The Crab, and their do-gooding is soon upended by the career criminals they’re intent on stopping. And then, suddenly, weirdly, Lydia and The Crab connect, kicking off a dream sequence in which these two outsiders dance and twirl and...
- 4/9/2021
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
There are no shortage of programs on television that satirize the current state of our country and our politics. But while most will have good quips about what’s happening or a half-assed impression of the president, most don’t show characters actually dealing with where the country is as part of their lives. Thankfully, “Broad City” has stepped up to the plate and filled that spot with immense hilarity. Emmy voters should take note of this show, as it offers the perfect rebuttal to Donald Trump‘s vision of America, and seriously put it in contention to be nominated for Best Comedy Series.
The idea of a show about two Jewish 20-something women in New York may not seem political on its face, but creators and stars Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson have molded those characteristics into the people they portray. By the end of the third season, which...
The idea of a show about two Jewish 20-something women in New York may not seem political on its face, but creators and stars Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson have molded those characteristics into the people they portray. By the end of the third season, which...
- 7/9/2018
- by Charles Bright
- Gold Derby
“Witches,” the hilarious, empowering, and altogether outstanding sixth episode of “Broad City” Season 4, takes on Donald Trump. The series that’s been bleeping his name all season cites the 45th President of the United States as the root cause of Ilana’s unprecedented sexual frustration and depicts him, in a particularly stirring montage, as a women-hating, fire-breathing, extra-orange monster.
“Witches” burns Trump at the stake, but it does more than that. It’s about aging, maturity, accountability, adulthood, satisfaction, human rights, societal fears, misogyny, the patriarchy, and all of these big ideas forced to the front of our collective consciousness throughout 2017 by… Donald Trump.
“It’s not about Trump at all, but it is,” Ilana Glazer said.
Glazer, along with fellow-co-creator, co-star, and “Witches” director Abbi Jacobson, sat down with IndieWire earlier this summer. At the time, the episode had already been screened twice: Press members got to see it ahead of the Season 4 premiere,...
“Witches” burns Trump at the stake, but it does more than that. It’s about aging, maturity, accountability, adulthood, satisfaction, human rights, societal fears, misogyny, the patriarchy, and all of these big ideas forced to the front of our collective consciousness throughout 2017 by… Donald Trump.
“It’s not about Trump at all, but it is,” Ilana Glazer said.
Glazer, along with fellow-co-creator, co-star, and “Witches” director Abbi Jacobson, sat down with IndieWire earlier this summer. At the time, the episode had already been screened twice: Press members got to see it ahead of the Season 4 premiere,...
- 10/26/2017
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
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