Brooks' 1981 film 'History of the World, Part I' gets an eight-episode series treatment featuring Nick Kroll, Ike Barinholtz and Wanda Sykes among its writer-producer-stars.
is less sacred than it is affectionately nostalgized. If you watch Hulu’s newwith the impression that the original was untouchable, what the exceptional creative team led by Nick Kroll, Ike Barinholtz and Wanda Sykes have produced will probably disappoint. But more pragmatic viewers will recognize that the eight-part series is very much in the vein of what Brooks delivered.
Brooks is an executive producer here, and he does an intro in which he says that one of his two requirements, when contacted by Hulu, was no repeating of sketches from the movie — a rule that’s broken within the first episode. There are also direct references to several other Brooks movies and beloved gags, while the 96-year-old American treasure — his words, but accurate — narrates, though with increasingly less depth as the series progresses.
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