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This satire TV series takes after two angels who attempt to do their best to settle on God drop his choice of annihilating the Earth. At first, they need to make two people to fall in love. It appears that it's a simple undertaking however when they start carrying out the responsibility, they discover that it might so troublesome.
Miracle Workers takes the plunge - and mostly falls flat. The jokes are generic, and they feel incomplete, as if we've just heard the first draft and no one tried to improvise or push it further.
This seven-episode limited series is both cynical (about God as CEO) and full of hope (about the potential for humanity). It's also consistently clever and funny.
"Miracle Workers" is imitating better titles, even as it features some great talent in its leads. It's worth watching for Buscemi's turn as a bored deity, but as of now its vision of Heaven offers few reasons for conversion.
A television series that grapples, albeit lightly, with subjects that have confounded religious scholars and philosophers for centuries ideally should be smart and a few steps ahead of its audience.
After sitting through almost four hours of "Miracle Workers"...you may come to the same conclusion I did. This joke runs long and eventually dry, too. One season is more than enough.
Simon Rich, whose background as a writer includes work on Pixar's INSIDE OUT as well as THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS, is able to take this insane concept and makes it work by investing everything into the characters.