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by Julian Spivey Muppets Now – Disney+ - 7/31, 8/7, 8/14, 8/21, 8/28 Who doesn’t love The Muppets? While I kind of wish this were just a reboot of the Muppets series that aired on ABC for one season a few years back, it’s nice to have a brand new Muppets series the entire family can enjoy. “Muppets Now” premiered on Disney+ yesterday and will drop a new episode every Friday in August. The show is said to be essentially three shows in one with segments of a game show, cooking show and a talk show and will be unscripted, which is the part that somewhat disappoints me. But, hey our favorite Muppet friends like Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, The Great Gonzo and many more will be involved so it’s bound to have some laughs. City Slickers – Hulu – 8/1 Chances are you’ve already seen “City Slickers,” as it’s almost 30 years old, but if you haven’t you’re truly missing out on one of the greatest comedies of the ‘90s. “City Slickers,” Billy Crystal’s second best starring comedy after “When Harry Met Sally” in my opinion, follows a group of New York City friends going through a mid-life crisis as they take part in a Western cattle drive from New Mexico to Colorado and get some sage advice from the wily old Curly Washburn (Jack Palance in an Oscar-winning performance) along the way. Jojo Rabbit – HBO Max – 8/1 One of the best movies of last year makes its way to streaming on HBO Max at the beginning of the month, Taika Waititi’s “Jojo Rabbit,” which tells the story of Hitler Youth member Jojo Betzler (played by Roman Griffin Davis) and the Jewish girl (played by Thomasin McKenzie) his sympathetic mother (Scarlett Johansson in an Oscar-nominated role) is hiding in their home. It’s a nice morality tale about how if you get to know folks that aren’t like yourself you might find they aren’t so bad. The movie is billed as a comedy-drama and there are certainly funny aspects, like Waititi’s effeminate portrayal of Adolf Hitler, but don’t go in expecting a constant laugh riot – it’s a heavy film. Waititi’s terrific script won him an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay. An American Pickle – HBO Max – 8/6 “An American Pickle,” the very first HBO Max original film, will premiere on Thursday, August 6 on the streamer. The film directed by Brandon Trost (who’s collaborated with Seth Rogen on many projects) stars Rogen as a struggling laborer who immigrates to America in the 1920s and accidentally falls into a vat of pickles at his factory job and is brined for 100 years. He’s preserved perfectly and emerges in modern-day Brooklyn. Being a Rogen film “An American Pickle” could be hilarious, it could be incredibly stupid or it could be a mixture of the two. Ted Lasso – AppleTV+ - 8/14 Taking a character that was created for soccer promos on NBC Sports and developing an entire show around it might be a bit of a longshot, but I remember chuckling a good deal years ago when I saw these promos of Jason Sudeikis as an American football coach named Ted Lasso who was hired to be a soccer coach in England, where of course the sport is known as football. The idea of this, I presume Texan, college football coach entering into a sport he has no experience with seems incredibly funny to me, especially with Sudeikis at the helm.
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