After the colossal 2015 disappointment of ABC's Muppets sitcom, is DisneyPlus's 'Muppets Now' an improvement?
The most wonderful thing about Muppets is that they can go anywhere and do anything. Over the years, Jim Henson's felt creations have committed elaborate capers, hobnobbed with the biggest and most obscure of celebrities, become embedded in classic works of literature and even gone into space.
You would think that with all of the available characters, and the endless range of unscripted formats, repetition would be easily avoidable. Instead, with four sketches per episode, each of the episodes I've seen features "Lifesty With Miss Piggy," a self-improvement show she insists should be "Lifestyle," and a cooking competition in which the Swedish Chef goes head-to-head with a celebrity chef making the same dish.
There's a temptation to wonder if the recent COVID-19 quarantine is behind the decision to avoid packing the frame with multiple Muppets. But apparently, the sketches were all shot well before the quarantine, so that head-scratching limitation can't be so easily excused away. The mark of a good Muppet celebrity is a willingness to get down-and-dirty with the synthetic stars, while middling guests mostly tend to just smile and nod. I'd put Taye Diggs in the latter category, which is a problem since everybody's favorite Star Who Follows You on Twitter is in all four "Lifesty with Miss Piggy" segments .
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