![]() ![]() Over the course of the season, however, what began as a modest act of community service devolves into bread-and-circuses infotainment, culminating in a live Bachelor-style reality show that’s actually just a crowd gathering to watch a woman pick between two suitors in real time. ![]() ![]() With the electrical grid down and traditional news institutions demolished, the news cycle becomes a literal news cycle - that is, a guy on a bike yelling updates at his fellow citizens. Some of the echoes of the past are even kinda clever. (The men, we’re told, perished either in the alien battle or in jet ski and fireworks accidents shortly thereafter.) But in Mulligan even Simon the history nerd just finds new ways to get bullied by jocks or strike out with women, no matter that the surviving population is two-thirds female. The saying goes that those who forget their history are doomed to repeat it. LaMarr, a reactionary who recoiled from newfangled notions like “ The Jeffersons, lady doctors and phones let you press a button to talk in Spanish” well before the attack, may be the only explicitly conservative character, but he’s not the only one unable to get over the world that was. There’s narrative potential in the way Mulligan subverts the fantasy of burning it all down to start fresh, as represented in so many despairing editorials or post-apocalyptic fictions. These three see in the apocalypse an opportunity to correct the mistakes of the past - but to get the job done, they’ll have to overcome both Matty’s Idiocracy-level stupidity and LaMarr’s underhanded scheming, as well as their own lingering hangups. But there’s also DARPA scientist Farrah (Tina Fey), Georgetown history post-doc Simon (Sam Richardson), and former Miss America Lucy (Chrissy Teigen), the latter of whom becomes Matty’s First Lady. The most prominent is Senator Cartwright LaMarr (Dana Carvey), a Mitch McConnell type who sees in Matty an opportunity to install himself as the Dick Cheney to Matty’s Dubya. Hailed as a hero, he’s quickly named the new president of the United States and surrounded by a tight circle of advisors. (Not like the rapper, the extraterrestrials insist: “It’s a coincidence!”) But just when all seems lost, Matty Mulligan (Nat Faxon), a single-A baseball bro from Boston, stops the attack in its tracks with a well-aimed grenade throw. Mulligan starts at the end of the world, with Earth already under fire from an army of bug-like green aliens from the planet Cardi-B. Cast: Nat Faxon, Dana Carvey, Tina Fey, Phil LaMarr, Sam Richardson, Chrissy Teigen ![]()
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