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EPISODES
August 20, 2017  | By David Bianculli

Showtime, 10:00 p.m. ET

 

SEASON PREMIERE: This is the return, for the final season, of one of TV’s most undervalued current series. Episodes has, over its run, provided a detailed spoof of Hollywood, with a selfish and vain character at its center, that at time has rivaled Curb Your Enthusiasm. Instead of Larry David playing a comically confrontational version of himself, Episodes has Matt LeBlanc playing a selfish, vain, and usually uncaring version of himself. He was the actor brought in by an all-talk, no-talent TV executive (played by John Pankow) to star in his company’s American adaptation of a tasteful British comedy hit. Tamsin Greig and Stephen Mangan play the British writing couple imported to Hollywood to adapt their British series for American TV – but saddled with or by mediocrity every step of the way, starting with LeBlanc. All these years later, and the four of them – the producer, the star, and the two writers – seem destined to work together one last time. Seems unlikely? How likely is it that the real LeBlanc is starring, right now, in a new U.S. version of a long-running British show about cars, Top Gear?

 
 
 
 
 
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