T, a mohawked and blinged out former bouncer, into a phenomenon, with a cultural footprint that included a cartoon, motivational videos and his own breakfast cereal. “The A-Team” was at the leading edge of the ’80s pop culture obsession with the Vietnam War, and also revived the career of George Peppard, who starred as Hannibal the ringleader.īut who are we kidding? The show is notable mainly for turning Mr. Because none of your plans are coming togetherīut “The A-Team” was also a fun mayhem machine, as a crack team of disgraced (wrongly, of course) former Vietnam commandos whipped up complex schemes to help the downtrodden. Stream “Arrested Development” on Netflix Seasons 1 to 3 are on Hulu.
Stream “The Larry Sanders Show” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm” on HBO. Want more reminders that humans can be overrated? “Curb Your Enthusiasm” (100 episodes) and “Arrested Development” (91 episodes) deliver lots more cringe-inducing humor and hilariously terrible people.
What are Armando Iannucci’s ‘The Thick of It’ and ‘Veep’ but the ‘Sanders’-ization of politics?” It was, as our chief TV critic, James Poniewozik, wrote, “one of those sitcoms that you’ve seen even if you never watched it,” creating “the visual vocabulary (fly-on-the-wall naturalism) and voice (scathing) for a generation of comedy. Along the way, it drew A-list comedians and actors to play lightly fictionalized - and even self-parodying - versions of themselves.
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He hosts a late-night talk show, a show-within-a-show concept that prefigures series like “30 Rock” and “The Comeback” but also TV mockumentaries like “The Office,” which take the audience inside a fictitious production. Its central character, Larry, is a loosely fictionalized version of the deeply flawed but lovable man who plays him, Garry Shandling, making it the forebear of many an auto-fiction comedy (“Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “Louie,” “Fleabag,” “Better Things”).
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