Review: ‘Reboot’ works hard to position itself as a battle between television’s past and future, but it can’t quite escape the trappings it skewers.
), and former child star Zack , all of whom have tumbled into post-primetime purgatory. Reed’s last role was as the voice of a hemorrhoid, but his theatrical aspirations are flattered by Hannah’s darkly comedic script. “It’s both the funniest thing you’ve ever read and you won’t laugh once,” he marvels. So Reed is devastated when Gordon , the show’s original showrunner, is hired to partner with Hannah. He wants to tilt Hannah's fresh take on the show back toward the original tone.
Gordon is politically incorrect at every turn. “Is this one of those diversity intern training things?” he asks when he meets Hannah’s young and trendy crop of writers. “The lessons you’re gonna learn? Invaluable. Case in point: misunderstandings. Always funny!” He is befuddled by their newfangled references to the
. One young woman suggests, “This is probably too meta but what if [the female characters] bond by talking about?” Uninterested in meta-humor, Gordon brings in his own crop of crusty television vets who say inappropriate things in the writers room but know how to craft classic jokes. “We don’t shlep in a live audience every week so they can sit there and nod in thoughtful amusement,” he scolds. “We need them to actually laugh!”beat me to all my criticisms.
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