The Emmy-nominated comedy will also reportedly get a new format: back in Quibi, the idea was to offer "quick bites," meaning their content consisted in 5 to minute episodes. Now, on top of bringing Reno ! But now the streaming platform is considering giving the musical series another season, especially after it got six Emmy nominations.
Set in Nevada, it follows the day-to-day activities of inept police officers who have to deal with the most ridiculous situations from petty criminals. In 'Reno' this comedy troupe has found a perfect cross between the improvisational sketch comedy series and the episodic televisions series.
The show, as you might expect, is largely improved which can be good or bad as seen in last year's disastrous 'Life with Bonnie'. The show's hit-and-miss laugh ratio is lower than it probably would be if it was scripted, but what we gain in the trade-off is this wonderful naturalistic dialog.
The crew have an ear for recreating that often witty but just as often dull, monotonous and uncomfortable naturalistic conversation. If 'Reno' were any funnier it would be in the stratosphere. I love the opening title sequences. The entire cast is note-perfect. We have straight-laced Jonsey Cedric Yarbrough , Garcia Carlos Alazraqui , a racist, lonely, complex shell of a man, Clementine Wendi McLendon-Covey is the truck stop waitress turned cop "with a full dance card", Junior Garant is the incompetent, fully of stories, young cadet and Rainessha Williams Niecy Nash is the sassy, booty-licious femme-fetal cop.
The show bounces all these characters off each other, matching them up in odd pairs and letting the nuances in them create the sparks. Thomas Lennon and Kerri Kennedy have given themselves the juiciest roles and approach brilliance in them. Kenney's Trudy Weigel is superbly dysfunctional beyond any simple description and Lennon's Jim Dangle is poised to be the breakout character of the show.
Like Mr. Garrison in 'South Park' and Stewie Griffen on 'Family Guy', Dangle is a character than can get a laugh from me almost anytime he opens his mouth. It has a knack for creating scenarios where, in an odd way, the set-ups can be funnier than the punch line. Just the idea that Jim Dangle is going to show up to Trudy Weigel's house and "give her the thrill of her life" is funnier than ultimately seeing the Asian man she's hiding in her kitchen.
But it also knows it needs to be more than that. The episode plots are as hilariously strange as it comes and veiled thinly enough to support any number of tangential gags. In one episode the group is put on suicide watch for Trudy Weigel and she flips out because they look disappointed she didn't go through with it.
In another, they venture to the Burning Man festival and get lost along the way in full rave gear. In a particularly inspired episode they compete for 2 tickets to an execution with a suspect scavenger hunt. The bumbling officers get visits from the FBI, Homeland Security, British officers and in 2 classic episodes a religious tele-evangelist and Reading Ron Brian Unger featuring a show-stoppping bit with a cat on a roof.
Watch continuously and you'll see running gags and continuity coming out in what otherwise seems like randomized chaos. These cops view enforcing the law as a happy side effect to the real joy of holding their power over the citizens of the burned-out Nevada suburb, abusing it gleefully and not above pulling guns on themselves. Sounds like something Fox would do. It's all for the best as 'Reno' on Comedy Central is given free range to do things every week that would have gotten them throw off the air at Fox.
It enthusiastically leapfrogs from one set piece to the next in an attempt to offend anyone and everyone it can and getting big laughs with it. I largely consider Comedy Central a dumping ground, but admire their drive to take chances - which is more than you can say for the networks.
It is a gutsy, frequently hysterical series in which the gags are expertly delivered and edited together by a well developed cast of comic talents. A real screwball farce that roams freely around without politically correct borders or boundaries, the likes of which you just don't see much of on TV today.
And you want, silly slapstick? An acquired taste, but well worth it. Details Edit. The deputies provide the pope's advance scouting team with an extensive tour of Reno's seedy side.
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