- Network: HULU
- Series Premiere Date: Mar 6, 2023
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The show squeaks by, barely, though this is one of those exercises where a little fast-forwarding through “History” couldn’t hurt.
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For a long-awaited sequel with this much leeway to rewrite history, there should be more reasons to celebrate.
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Not all of it works. In fact, a lot of it doesn’t. Maybe the misses are inevitable when the goal is an explosion of concepts and barrage of jokes; some won’t land. But the ones that do stick with you.
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It really feels like it needed one more voice in the writers’ room to iron out some of the bits that feel comedically rushed, like someone just accepted the first idea thrown up on a whiteboard and moved on.
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Running through much of the series, I’d say there a laugh or chuckle or three per episode, and every so often a genuine spit-take.
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Retrograde and lazy comedy punches down; virtuous, often smug comedy punches up; the truest sort (even History Of the World, Part I) punches in both directions to dismantle all pieties. Sadly, this limp coda to the Brooks oeuvre only lands a half-hearted knuckle sandwich on its own crotch.