It's time to play the music and light the lights! Alan Sepinwall reviews the new Disney+ series 'Muppets Now'
is riffing on YouTube and, to an extent, reality TV. Most of the segments recur from one episode to the next: a lifestyle influencer show with Miss Piggy, Uncle Deadly, Taye Diggs, and Linda Cardellini ; an unpredictable game show hosted by Pepe the King Prawn;-esque science show hosted by Dr. Bunsen Honeydew and Beaker; a cooking competition pitting Swedish Chef against his real-life peers; and a celebrity interview show called “Mup Close & Personal.
, but has grown in stature ever since the 2011 movie. Today, he’s the most prominent of several implicitly queer characters who makeThe segments can be hit-and-miss. The sheer destructive power on display as Bunsen and Beaker, say, drop objects from a scissor lift to test the laws of gravity, is infectious. And Pepe’s talk show, where he’s constantly changing the format to the chagrin of sidekick Scooter, comes closest to recapturing the chaotic spirit of.
Overall, though, the sketches are pretty good. The larger problem is that there are usually just two Muppets in any sketch, and almost always in the same combination. In addition,barely has any backstage component to speak of. In between the sketches, we see a harried Scooter frantically trying to upload each segment onto a Disney server, while other Muppets harangue him by video chat. And that’s it.
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