‘Rooster’ Review: HBO’s Steve Carell College Comedy Boasts a Stellar Cast, but Can’t Figure Out What It Wants to Be
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Bill Lawrence and Matt Tarses created the half-hour series, which also features Charly Clive, Phil Dunster, Danielle Deadwyler and John C. McGinley.
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Share on Facebook Share on X Google Preferred Share to Flipboard Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Send an Email Print the Article Post a Comment Logo text Despite a tremendous cast and ample, if sporadically utilized, charm, HBO ‘s Rooster suffers from a surfeit of loglines and an insufficiency of focus in deciding which one it wants to follow. It’s a show with an excess of underdeveloped identities, rather than a lack of identity, spackling over its poorly fused story elements with a sense of humor that’s sometimes appealing and frequently desperately hacky. Rooster is the story of an introverted pulp fiction author ( Steve Carell ), who is nothing like his macho alter ego but gets the opportunity to change his life when he gets a job as writer-in-residence at a small New England college. Related Stories TV 'Lanterns' First Teaser Shines Light on Kyle Chandler, Aaron Pierre's Chemistry and Conflict TV HBO's 'A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms' Casts Three New Actors for Season 2 Rooster The Bottom Line Still trying — too hard — to find itself. Airdate: 10 p.m. Sunday, March 8 Cast: Steve Carell, Charly Clive, Phil Dunster, Danielle Deadwyler, Lauren Tsai and John C. McGinley Creators: Bill Lawrence and Matt Tarses Or maybe… Rooster is the story of a successful novelist (Steve Carell) who never went to college, but gets the chance to recreate the coed experience when he gets a job as writer-in-residence at a small New England college. Or maybe… Rooster is about a bestselling novelist (Steve Carell) who gets a job as writer-in-residence at a small New England college, reuniting him with his daughter (Charly Clive), an art history professor dealing with a crumbling marriage. Or maybe… Steve Carell stars in Rooster as a former [narrative element redacted] who gets a job as writer-in-residence at a small New England college, only to find his true purpose when he somewhat confusingly becomes...
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