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May 9, 2024 · Discovery Channel's all-new docuseries Expedition From Hell: The Lost Tapes is set to premiere on Sunday, May 12, 2024, at 10 pm ET/PT.
- Mac is as Gruber as ever.
- The Best TV Series of 2021
- Who needs to pay for what they did?
- Verdict
By Tom Jorgensen
Updated: Dec 16, 2021 5:50 pm
Posted: Dec 16, 2021 5:45 pm
MacGruber Season 1 is now streaming on Peacock.
Sometimes, a groundswell of support can take as little as two days to keep a fan favorite going. Sometimes, it takes 11 years… but here we are: MacGruber is back. Though its perplexing Rotten Tomatoes score may fool you, the 2011 movie based on the Saturday Night Live sketch is a cult favorite (and favorite of Christopher Nolan’s) for a reason. Lots of reasons actually, and MacGruber’s sequel series now streaming on Peacock doesn’t forget one of them. Though MacGruber’s return walks up to the line of overstaying its welcome, when the show hits, it hits hard. Led by Will Forte, displaying an unwavering commitment to being the lowest-status character on the show, MacGruber is ludicrous, stupid, and occassionally misguided, but a damn funny follow-up to his first outing.
MacGruber’s spent the last ten years in jail for one of the hundreds of crimes he committed in his movie, but finally gets released by General Fasoose (Laurence Fishburne) to take down bio-terrorist Enos Queeth (Billy Zane), with whom the Grubes has a longstanding blood feud. MacGruber is rarely at his best working alone, but his old partners Vicky St. Elmo (Kristen Wiig) and Dixon Piper (Ryan Phillippe) have settled down into married life and have little appetite for Mac’s renegade ways… at least at first.
With the creative team of Jorma Taccone (The Lonely Island), Forte (The Last Man on Earth), and John Solomon (Saturday Night Live) returning, you can forget any concerns about MacGruber’s bawdy humor and anachronistic style being lost in the translation to short-form. From the first ripping guitar riff that blares when Mac walks into frame, to the second, to the third, fourth… you get it; MacGruber gets hold of a joke, runs it into the ground until it’s not funny, then keeps going until it’s funny again. These running gags are the backbone of MacGruber, which makes sense given its history as a recurring SNL sketch, and are deployed with a gleeful and reckless abandon. The amount of mileage this show gets out of a misplaced tiger roar sound effect will stagger you, a worthy equal to Wet Hot American Summer’s pot-smashing sound used pretty much any time an object is thrown offscreen. But for as audacious as the dialogue and litany of one-liners are, you’ll find just as much joy in MacGruber’s finer details. I’ll point out that Episode 5 features an Emmy winner.
There’s no MacGruber without Forte, and his performance here is stronger than ever. Forte has wanted to get back under the mullet for a long time now, and that enthusiasm shines through on screen. He guides MacGruber through mood swing after mood swing -- full of swagger one second, groveling and begging for degradation the next -- and always feels in command of how what he’s doing will come across. For as narcissistic as MacGruber himself is, Forte’s ego is nowhere to be found: he practically lays down and lets the show walk over him to get laughs and it’s consistently funny to see such a sad sack also be such a savage murderer. MacGruber kills, he kills often, and he kills creatively.
MacGruber’s streaming sequel series is squarely aimed at fans of the movie and, if you count yourself among them, it’s consistently fun. The jump to an episodic format isn’t always kind to MacGruber, which doesn’t have quite enough plot to fill out its eight episodes, but even when the writing starts to go astray, the cast’s commitment to this wack...
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