Presumably because I watched The Good Place kept getting recommended Mr. Mayor because it also stars Ted Danson. This originally started as a 30 Rock spin-off starring Jack as NYC Mayor, but when Baldwin turned it down and Danson took over it was shifted to LA because he wouldn't film elsewhere. It's okay, and sometimes there's decent funny, it has 30 Rock vibes for sure, but it really needed to still be Jack. Danson's character is a "businessman" and ostensibly "centrist" Democrat but it never works like it would with a Republican Jack. Like the very first thing Mayor Danson does is ban paper straws, yet he's supposed to be the semi-sane among all the California crazies? Holly Hunter's character is supposed to be this hippie progressive but Danson literally doesn't disagree with her on anything. They can't even really come up with any kind of true conflict because Danson's differences from anyone is just what should be prioritized. When he wants to build a space elevator with some billionaire it's not using real city resources but a bunch of found money. The occasional City Council characters who barely around are far bigger roadblocks to the endless progressive ideas.
A lot of it is just half-baked like this, where you can see how it could have worked with Jack at the center of everything but then they shifted the series without changing the intended dynamics. It's almost good anyway because of Bobby Moynihan's character and some of the guest stars.
This is about the only part with celebrities playing themselves on the entire thing though:
A lot of it is just half-baked like this, where you can see how it could have worked with Jack at the center of everything but then they shifted the series without changing the intended dynamics. It's almost good anyway because of Bobby Moynihan's character and some of the guest stars.
This is about the only part with celebrities playing themselves on the entire thing though:
Spoiler: got recommended this because I searched for that (click to show)
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