While Apple TV+'s Schmigadoon! walks and talks like a musical, it doesn’t hold up, structurally, as a television series.
This production’s pacing is more deliberate than that of the film, leaving the characters with more room to breathe.
Carol Morley’s film wants to blow our minds, but it succeeds only at rousing our boredom.
Director Jorge Michel Grau’s ambitions are stalled by a screenplay that seems to have never made it past a first draft.
Tveit’s innocent, approachable visage has been a large part of his appeal.
The narrative is just a vehicle for action, the contents of the envelope simply the MacGuffin that drives the plot.