I don’t care for musicals, but I’ve always wanted to see a story where 1-2 characters know they’re in a musical and aren’t part of the act. That’s kind of what you get with Schmigadoon, at least in the early episodes. Keegan-Michael Key is particularly good at expressing annoyance whenever a song starts. There’s also a great gag where the other normie, Melissa, walks out on someone doing a song and dance number, and you can still hear him going at it inside. But that’s pretty much all you get in terms of anti-musical comedy, because this show is more of an homage than a parody. They still want you to like the songs that they obviously put a lot of work into. And you know what? The songs aren’t bad. My only complaint is that several of them go on for a little too long.
The other issue I have with Schmigadoon is how rushed the story feels in the end. The penultimate episode, for instance, is much shorter than the other episodes and ends so abruptly that I thought I’d missed something. Jane Krakowski shows up out of nowhere in the same episode and is never seen again. That might have been a joke itself based on her character’s Sound of Music inspiration, though I’m not familiar enough with The Sound of Music to get it. Clearly, I’m not the target audience here, but I was still invested in the humor and premise. So it was a pretty big letdown how quickly the normies got back together, even though things were going well with their own romantic interests. It really feels like 2-3 episodes are missing. That, or the brevity is another musical reference I’m too uncultured to understand.
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