The best series of the week: ‘The jury’ or how to remove the pot of other people’s shame

2023-08-16 00:16:35

Updated Wednesday, August 16, 2023 – 00:16

This peculiar comedy recreates a trial for a minor crime, a crazy process that is embarrassing

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The new season of Only murders in the building begins with one of those meta-comments that only this series can afford. The third installment of it opens with a plot that involves a gifted actress who, paradoxically, her great opportunity comes when she is seventy years old.. That actress is played by Meryl Streep. It is impossible for the viewer not to fall for such a magnificent joke, well drawn and probably very expensive. In Only murders in the building person Meryl Streep laughs at the concept Meryl Streepbut it is that the concept Meryl Streep is none other than: Meryl Streep is the best actress in the world.

James Marsden It’s not the trashy reverse of Meryl Streep, although we might as well play with that idea, because comically it works. With a physique and trajectory of a second-class idol, Marsden, who turns 50 in a few weeks, has been ironic about his star-non-star status for many years. In Rockefeller Plaza he was the handsome, dorky boyfriend of Liz Lemon (Tina Fey) and in Westworld a robot created to play a short-lived cowboy in an amusement park designed for humans to unleash their baser instincts. he. Curling the loop, his Westworld Teddy turned out to be more complex than he seemed: Teddy knew who he was just like James knows who he is.

In The judge, Marsden plays himself. This quirky comedy available in Spain on Prime Video, recreates a trial for a misdemeanor. It is a crazy process and one that gives a lot of embarrassment to others. Nothing we haven’t seen before, except for one small detail: all the participants in the series are actors except one.. A juror is a “real” person who believes that the trial to which he has been summoned is real and that the James Marsden sitting next to him in the room is a jerk who tries to use his seedy star privileges to get his way every time. The mechanism of The judge It is risky and at times it is hard to believe that the farce is really such, but those “technical” doubts are forgotten when the laughter arrives. If removing the pot of other people’s shame is your thing, The judge it’s your series If you enjoyed like a pig with the Valerie Cherish (Lisa Kudrow) from The Comeback, with Larry David or with Berto Romero in Look what you’ve done, don’t wonder if poor Ronald Gladden (Ronald Gladden) is in on it or not. Get on his Ferris wheel.

To think that when he is the one who shows himself up, he is genuinely doing it is as funny as it is funny. As much as witnessing that James Marsden knows what kind of asshole we think James Marsden is (or want him to be). The judge It begins with him trying to get rid of the brown by pulling a fame that really isn’t that much. “You’re in Sonic?” Ronald asks him. In the next episode he tries to fix it by telling Marsden that he’s seen the movie and it’s better than he thinks.. James Marsden is also much funnier than we thought.