“Sprung” Review: Greg Garcia Debuts Martha Plimpton’s Comedy Freevee

In episode six of Greg Garcia’s new comedy Freevee SpringTwo characters appear to be stealing a truck full of valuable art, talking about a Jimmy Buffett musical. Escape to Margaritaville. The episode ends with the full song of said musical; It’s the kind of creative choice that would seem completely random if you didn’t know Garcia wrote it. Escape to Margaritaville.

Garcia wrote and directed all episodes. Spring And Garcia is the Rosetta stone through which almost every second Spring can be understood or interpreted. Trying to figure out how you know a random supporting actor? You probably remember them from The Garcia Show. Think about why a comedic cadence, pop culture reference, or kitschy production design sounds familiar to you. It is likely similar to Garcia’s program.

does not mean Spring Depicting Garcia in self-plagiarism mode, this is my best summary review Spring if you loved it raising hope any my name is Earl (any guestbook any Yes dear, I think), so it’s a safe bet you’ll enjoy finding out what Freevee (Amazon’s free TV platform formerly known as IMDb TV) is and how much you’ll have to pay to watch it (for free). and if not, it’s still a solid mix of raw, crass humor and well-executed feeling, with an excellent cast.

Spring Also, be warned, he has a history of COVID-19 and is primarily using the pandemic for humor. He is very smart about how he examines the economic impact of the pandemic, especially on working families. It completely avoids dealing with the more tragic cost of the pandemic, which is completely understandable given the comedic nature of the series, but it might turn off or at least relate to some audiences.

The series is set in the early days of COVID, 2020, when some prisons were releasing non-violent offenders as overcrowded facilities became a petri dish for the disease. Not instantly hilarious. Among those arrested are Jack (Garrett Dillahunt), who has been in prison for 26 years due to mandatory minimums for marijuana-related offenses; trained con artist Gloria (Shakira Barrera); and Gallo (Philip Garcia), an untrained petty criminal. Jack and Gloria have never met, but they have an affair in prison and flirt in their bathrooms, although Gloria thinks Jack is 28 and looks like a cross between The Rock and A-Rod, which he is not.

In a world without prisons where everyone is stuck due to COVID, Jack and Gloria have nowhere to go. Rooster invites them to move in with his mother Barb (Martha Plimpton), and before long, Barb is insisting that her new guests join the family’s small criminal enterprise. Lately, he’s been stealing people’s Amazon packages, which is hilarious for the character in a show that airs on the Amazon-owned platform. Jack, a fundamentally decent man who learned more about crime in prison than as a supposed villain, insists they only rob bad people, starting with toilet paper collector Melvin (James Earle), who is in a bikini. . He moves dancing. (Clare Gillies), with whom Rooster was already almost engaged.

Future targets include a wealthy congresswoman (Kate Walsh’s Paula Tackleberry), who made millions from inside information when the pandemic began and hopes to make even more when a vaccine is ready.

Garcia’s works always lead the way with a broad scope that seems to mock his characters, prone to malapropism, get their news from completely unreliable sources, and live in homes filled with raw humor, no irony, and faulty, outdated technology. . It usually doesn’t take long for Garcia to empathize with her characters, finding warmth in her unrenovated homes, courage in her piles of retro knickknacks, family stories in her wrecked cars, as well as wisdom and resilience. in the absence of self-knowledge.

He also strongly believes in the human capacity for good, so Jack’s selfless desire to play Robin Hood parallels the protagonist’s shallow but benevolent karma. my name is Earl, he must. You might start Garcia’s show thinking he’s attacking, but what he laughs about is his financial difficulties, his genuine disdain for the rich and powerful and institutions that fail vigilantes like Jack. Or a Jason Lee count to set things right.

looking at Spring, it is easy to see how COVID fits into these themes. Perhaps our main characters believe in too many medical conspiracies or invest too much in our former president’s advice. But the show has pure love for them, and the villains are medical charlatans and political opportunists. Garcia destroys his intended targets and isn’t afraid to be pampered when good deeds are done. There are laughs throughout and even reluctant tears at the end of an episode or two.

It’s all too much because the episodes Spring It is usually 35 to 40 minutes. Even though that includes each episode’s long preamble and insanely long closing credit tags, that’s probably more than any sitcom can consistently carry. The series’ various storylines (Jack and Gloria’s growing real-world flirtation, Rooster’s reconciliation with the Wiggles, Barbie’s online relationship with an aspiring con artist, the complex ploys to rob a congressman) work well throughout the series. nine-episode season. But there are definitely episodic plotlines and full episodes that could have been beefed up.

Plimpton and Dillahunt won Emmy consideration raising hope And they continue to fit perfectly into Garcia’s elegant and sophisticated comic dialogue. Barbie and Virginia de Chance raising hope They are not identical, but they share a native intelligence and appreciate Plimpton’s devotion to every slightly grotesque behavior, terribly reckless fashion choice and politically incorrect. Dillahunt has an innocence, especially when it comes to social and technological changes during his time in prison, that makes Jack’s always inappropriate romance with Gloria a perfect match, while Barrera is smart and funny enough to seem won over.

Garcia specializes in creating very goofy characters, and Philip Garcia and Claire Gillies are notable for finding so much sweetness in Rooster and the Wiggles that even when the series brazenly laughs at them, they retain all of their dignity. Gillies, in particular, gets better and better as the season goes on, and I had to skip some scenes from Wiggles because I missed the jokes while laughing at the scenes.

saying Spring It’s not essentially set for another season, and I think the story resolution works well in Garcia’s funny but still emotional terms. It might be the best since then. my name is Earl In particular, it showed that when scales are launched into Garcia’s program, the results can be very bad. But raising hope He’s been pretty consistent over his four seasons, so maybe it’s nice to see him back for another COVID-assisted heist in a completely immersive way, completely in the style of Greg Garcia. Spring The gang.