Why Angie Tribeca Is The Perfect Sitcom To Binge Watch
Gone are the days when programmes were consumed on a weekly basis. Now entire seasons are devoured in a day before they’re quickly spat out by audiences that then immediately move on to a brand-new show.
Getting noticed in amidst this chaos can be rather difficult, while enticing viewers back to watch your show again as a repeat when they could just as easily view another debut is neigh on impossible. Yet, ‘Angie Tribeca’ has the right comedic formula for viewers to do just that.
First of all, it’s led by the comedic savant that is Rashida Jones, an actress that’s not only so preposterously watchable you could spend all day watching her slice a lemon, but who over the course of her roles on ‘The Office’ and ‘Parks and Recreation’ has proven that she is a selfless comedic foil for her co-stars as well as able to dabble in both physical and quick-fire dialogue gags.
In ‘Angie Tribeca’, Jones is assisted tremendously by Hayes MacArthur, who plays her partner Jay Geils. In fact, the pair’s insatiable rapport led the show’s writers to shelve the idea that Tribeca’s partner would die every week. Alongside Jones and MacArthur Deon Cole and Jere Burns round off the show’s main cast, providing an energy and crankiest, respectively, that shares the burden of the show.
At the same time, ‘Angie Tribeca’ doesn’t scrimp on the cameos, too. Alfred Molina and James Franco pop up on a recurring basis, while Lisa Kudrow, Adam Scott, Gary Cole, Sarah Chalke, Jeff Dunham, John Michael Higgins, David Koechner, Amy Smart, Jon Hamm, Danny Trejo, Gene Simmons, Cecily Strong, Rhys Darby, Busy Phillips, Keegan-Michael Key, and the one and only Bill Murray have lent their considerable talents to the show, meaning that each and every week there is someone new to appreciate on screen.
It’s understandable why these comedians and actors have been attracted to ‘Angie Tribeca’. Inspired by the likes of ‘Get Smart’, ‘Airplane’, ‘Naked Gun’, and ‘The Police Squad’, the old-school rapidity of the jokes is mixed with a modern edge that is still safe for family audiences and is also immediately alluring, while it also helps that ‘Angie Tribeca’s’ creators Steve and Nancy Carell have a long list of adept pals to call upon.
The show’s unique comedic style, which sees the writers try to squeeze at least 60 jokes onto each page, also invites repeat views, something that Jones herself admitted to The Hollywood Reporter last year when the entire first season of ‘Angie Tribeca’ premiered as part of an ad-free 25 hour spree on TBS.
“The show really lends itself to that kind of watching: It’s a procedural; you can start anew at the beginning of every episode,” Jones explained. “There’s wall-to-wall attempted jokes in every episode. If you like that, you’re going to want more of that, and I think it’s a good way to watch the show.”
Clearly it’s working a treat, too, because ‘Angie Tribeca’s’ third season has already been confirmed by TBS, while the second season is currently airing on E4 on Thursday nights at 21:30.
[Images via E4]
