📺 What to watch: Not Dead Yet, Mythic Quest...

& 6 new TV shows

Feb 16, 2023

Diamond dogs, mount up. Lots of new & returning shows coming to your screens in the next month, including Ted Lasso season 3 (finally), which will return on March 15.

In today’s edition:
Weekly watchlist
Mythic Quest
Not Dead Yet

— Jess Spoll and Jenni Cullen

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We keep an eye on all of the new streaming content that is set to premiere. Here’s a list of new shows and movies to watch this week.

Animal Control (Season 1) — Joel McHale (Community) headlines this new workplace comedy set in Seattle’s animal control department.
Watch on Fox/Hulu: Premieres on Fox tonight, streaming tomorrow on Hulu
Hello, Tomorrow (Season 1) — Set in a retro-future world, this drama-comedy centers around a team of salespeople selling timeshares on the moon.
Watch on Apple TV+: First 3 episodes premiere on February 17, weekly after that
Outer Banks (Season 3) — After fleeing the Outer Banks, Season 3 finds the Pogues washed ashore on a desert island, and they once again become caught up in a race for the elusive treasure.
Watch on Netflix: February 23 (all episodes)
The Consultant (Season 1) — This dark comedy / thriller follows a mysterious new consultant (Christoph Waltz) who is hired to improve business at an app-based tech company.
Watch on Prime Video: February 24 (all episodes)
Party Down (Season 3) — Returning from a 13-year hiatus, our favorite cater-waiter team of Hollywood hopefuls is back with their big dreams and bigger personalities. Read a review of the original two seasons here.
Watch on Starz: February 24 (one episode per week)
Liaison (Season 1) — In this high-stakes British/French thriller, two agents and former lovers must work together to combat international cyberattacks while also confronting the mistakes of their shared past.
Watch on Apple TV+: February 24 (one episode per week)

In which we choose a recent show we’ve been enjoying to review and feature.

If you’re looking for a fresh take on workplace comedies, try… Mythic Quest

Keywords: workplace comedy, video games, ensemble
Watch if you like: Silicon Valley, It’s Always Sunny, Community
Jenni’s Rating: A-

Mythic Quest is a smart and lovable workplace comedy about the dysfunctional studio behind an extremely popular video game. From the minds of It’s Always Sunny creators Rob McElhenney and Charlie Day, and writer Megan Ganz, this sitcom is bolstered by quick, witty writing and an incredible ensemble cast.

Unlike sitcoms that require a few episodes (or entire seasons) to fall into a groove, Mythic Quest knows exactly what it is from day one. It gets funny fast and gives itself plenty of room to evolve both its storylines and its characters into something three-dimensional and — sometimes surprisingly — moving.

At least once per season, the show includes a standalone bottle episode that’s more drama than comedy and usually deals with the impossibility of creating lasting art that can stand up to its original vision. This theme pervades the standard episodes as well, though usually in a more lighthearted manner. In fact, the main sources of conflict in the series often arise from a satirization of the classic battles between “creatives” and “suits” or another common binary in corporate offices: “practical” vs. “visionary”.

Bottom line: Mythic Quest is hilarious, self-aware, fun, and just downright worthwhile. If you’ve been looking for a sitcom to add to your rotation, definitely give this a try.

— Jenni

Length: 20/30-min runtime, 3 seasons / 30 episodes
Watch on: Apple TV+

Our thoughts on brand new streaming content, and where you can watch.

Not Dead Yet

Keywords: comedy, heartwarming, ghosts
Watch if you like: The Good Place, Ghosts, Younger
Jess’s Rating: C

Not Dead Yet follows Nell Serrano (Gina Rodriguez), a woman who is returning to her career as a journalist after an ill-fated relationship took her life temporarily off course. Now that she’s back, the only gig she can get is as an obituary writer. Things take an odd turn when she realizes that she can see and hear the ghosts of the deceased people that she’s writing about.

Gina Rodriguez proved that she is an incredible leading woman on Jane the Virgin, and it was past time that she head up another primetime show. Rounding out the experienced cast, Not Dead Yet also has Lauren Ash (Superstore) and Hannah Simone (New Girl) on board as Nell’s boss and co-worker, respectively. Unfortunately, this show isn’t worthy of all that comedic star power.

It’s hard not to compare the show to CBS’s Ghosts, since the main character can also speak with spirits that no one else can see. But while Ghosts is both heartwarming and hilarious, Not Dead Yet isn’t either of those things. Its attempts at poignancy don’t quite ring true, and so far, I have not laughed once. I’m not going to write this show off entirely yet, because I’m a huge fan of Gina Rodriguez and I have a hard time believing that a show with her, Lauren Ash, and Hannah Simone won’t end up being funny… I’m just giving it some time to get there.

— Jess

Length: 30-min runtime, 3 episodes available now with a new episode each week
Watch on: ABC / Hulu

Your shows, returned:

Star Trek: Picard, Season 3: Premieres February 16 on Paramount+
Carnival Row, Season 2: Premieres February 17 on Prime Video
Magnum P.I., Season 5: Premieres February 19 on NBC
Snowfall, Season 6: Premieres February 22 on FX/the next day on Hulu
Bel-Air, Season 2: Premieres February 23 on Peacock
Outer Banks, Season 3: Premieres February 23 on Netflix

Upcoming new releases:

Animal Control: Premieres February 16 on Fox / the next day on Hulu
Still Missing Morgan: Premieres February 16 on Paramount+
The 12th Victim: Premieres February 17 on Showtime
Hello, Tomorrow: Premieres February 17 on Apple TV+
The Company You Keep: Premieres February 19 on ABC/the next day on Hulu

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