![]() ![]() I think I have totally positive feelings about it. Paste: How does it feel, whether personally or professionally, to be on the cusp of this third and final season of the show?Īndy Daly: Personally, it feels very exciting to be out there banging the drum about these episodes that we made, that I’m really proud of and that I think people are really going to like, and there’s something exciting about something coming to an end. In honor of Forrest MacNeil’s last stand, we caught up with Daly to look back on Review’s run, getting his take on everything from the show’s legacy to his favorites of Review’s reviews (which you can compare to Paste’s here). EST on March 16, and judging by the episodes available to critics at this time, the series is going out in as fantastic a fashion as its adoring fan base could hope for. ![]() The cold, hard reality is that Review’s third and final season kicks off at 10 p.m. Review-a critically beloved cult hit, and the starring turn that comedy journeyman Daly has deserved for so long-is as utterly deranged as it is brilliantly innovative, and even if it aired for a Simpsons-esque amount of time, it would end too soon. ![]() By episode six, he commits unintentional vehicular manslaughter while reviewing road rage two episodes later, he is party to the kidnapping of a cop while reviewing running from the law. Forrest’s dedication to his work is all-consuming: just three episodes into the series, he reviews divorce by ending his happy marriage. The excellent Andy Daly ( Comedy Bang! Bang!, Eastbound and Down, so many more) stars as Forrest MacNeil, a life reviewer who, for his show within Comedy Central’s, throws himself headfirst into each random viewer-submitted experiences he is faced with so as to critique it. Perhaps that’s a reach, given, you know, the basic boundaries of time and space, but there is a group of people out there-too few of them, I’m afraid-who I imagine would agree with me: people who wholeheartedly love Comedy Central’s most unjustly overlooked show. “The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.” An ancient Chinese philosopher named Lao Tzu wrote that hundreds and hundreds of years ago, but I am pretty sure he had Review in mind when his quill met parchment (or whatever). ![]()
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