‘Miracle Workers: End Times’ Review: Series Finds New Spark in Apocalypse
Over the course of four seasons, Miracle Workers has had an interesting progression. The first season was based on the book What in God’s Name, by the show’s creator Simon Rich, while the second season, known as Dark Ages, was based on his short story “Revolution.” However, with the third season, Oregon Trail, Rich left the series as showrunner, while Dan Mirk and Robert Padnick took over.
The first episode, “Welcome to Boomtown,” written by Mirk and Padnick and directed by David Wain, immediately embraces this concept with gusto and has a ton of fun with it. Boomtown is essentially the Thunderdome, while both Sid and Freya look like they could’ve come out of the Mad Max series. Especially genius is Bass, who can best be described as a man-dog, barking at mailmen, and sleeping in bed with his mommy and daddy of Sid and Freya.
'Miracle Workers: End Times' is as Dark, Weird, and Hilarious as One Would Hope Because of the situation these characters are in, End Times often plays in extremely dark humor, but in a way that never feels out of place in this scenario. In the show’s second episode, “The HOA,” Freya attempts to become the president of the Home Owner’s Association after being told to take down the decapitated heads she puts in her front yard.
But it’s Jon Bass as Scraps the War Dog that is a true standout this season. Bass has always been an oddity in this series, going completely all-in with whatever idea this show throws at him, but End Times pushes him even further than ever before. Almost every choice he makes is priceless, and the absurdity of his existence alone makes him the MVP in a series full of fantastic and bonkers performances.
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