The fortysomething Petes, who have no chance of getting a mortgage, shuffle from place to place trying to find a reasonably priced apartment in the now overpriced tech hub of Wellsville. Their eccentric parents, friends, enemies, and neighbors are back, too, but rising rents are pushing everyone into increasingly remote parts of the city.
What’s the opposite of laughing? Crying. “Bawl That” is an updated sketch-comedy show in which the original cast of “All That” attempts to tackle cyberbullying, peer pressure, the college-admissions process, and school shootings. This time, however, the show always ends in tears. Musical guests include the sad dads of the National, a sombre Feist, and Mount Eerie sobbing onstage.
Alex Mack is back, and she’s immersed in the Pleasant Valley middle-aged online-dating scene, where turning into a metallic goo puddle is the only appropriate response to her depressing dates. Alas, if only Hunter from Season 4 would return . . .
“Kenan & Keller” follows the real-life friendship between S.N.L.’s longest-standing cast member, Kenan Thompson, and the sixty-seven-year-old Michelin-starred restaurateur Thomas Keller. Our stars eat at New York City’s most expensive restaurants, use hundred-dollar bills as bibs at lobster dinners, and constantly argue over who should win this year’s James Beard awards.
Wide-legged jeans, cryptocurrency, spitgate—you name it. Clarissa’s back, and she’s explaining everything that doesn’t get clearer with age to us. Her dumbass brother Ferg-face Ferguson is back, too, and, to no one’s surprise, he’s a Trumper. Meanwhile, their neighbor Sam still climbs through Clarissa’s bedroom window and somehow hasn’t been cancelled.
The Midnight Society reunites in this genre-bending horror program. Instead of presenting terrifying tales from another dimension, however, this show is nothing but a thirty-minute silent scroll through today’s news cycle. Rated TV-MA.
