The Oscar-winner is starring in a Tina Fey sitcom on NBC and giving the comedic performance of her career. How is Hunter’s work on “Mr. Mayor” not everyone’s TV obsession?
. On first watch, its talented cast felt less like actual characters and more like broad sketches of people that had no real reason for existing with each other beyond “working together,” a trap that many a workplace sitcom falls into. But after revisiting the series, it’s easy to see just how much it actually worked right from the start.
Six episodes into its second season, the series and its actors seem to have reached an ideal balance, though one actor remains far and above the best of the bunch: Holly Hunter, who plays Deputy Mayor Arpi, the foil to Danson’s self-absorbed and unprepared head honcho. Arpi is a workaholic of sorts, determined in every way to make the relatively incompetent staff work to her benefit. Hunter’s work here feels distinctly tied to her past.
She’s the kind of character where both everything and nothing about her biography seems to have been planned out or written. Any new feature that the writers decide to throw her way feels appropriate because, frankly, anything would make sense for her to do. It’s not quite on the same level of zaniness and escalation as the many things Tracy Jordan and Jenna Maroney would say or do, but more like grounded nonsense.Take the way the series has always taken advantage of Hunter’s tiny frame .
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