I quite enjoyed season one of "Schmigadoon" but it wasn't until I went back and re-read my review of it that I realised I predicted the change that the second season would undergo.
Though their relationship was saved on their last visit to "Schmigadoon" Melissa (Cecily Strong), and Josh (Keegan-Michael Key) have struggled to maintain a level of happiness, particularly with their labours to conceive a child. They decide to return to the dream like city they once visited, and manage to make their way back, but discover that instead of a romantic small town, they've landed in Schmicago, where things are sexier, darker and not prone to happy endings, which is unfortunate, because unless they can produce on, they're stuck there.
I think I liked this season of the show slightly more than the first. Maybe it's because I'm a little more familiar with these musicals than I am with the ones that inspired the first run. Much of the cast from the first season return, though in new roles - with Josh and Cecily being the only character to remember their last visit. There's no Fred Armisen this time, but Tituss Burgess joins the cast in the Narrator role and is brilliant. Ariana DeBose has a reduced part, but Jane Krakowski is given an expanded one. The key central pairing of Alan Cumming and Kristin Chenoweth return, and both are given much more iconic characters to play around with this time.
The songs are catchy and the performances excellent and at just six episodes it doesn't outstay it's welcome. I'm not sure whether I can think of another group of musicals that would do for a third season (Andrew Lloyd Webber maybe) but if they can think of a way to do it, then I'd certainly be up for watching it.
Though their relationship was saved on their last visit to "Schmigadoon" Melissa (Cecily Strong), and Josh (Keegan-Michael Key) have struggled to maintain a level of happiness, particularly with their labours to conceive a child. They decide to return to the dream like city they once visited, and manage to make their way back, but discover that instead of a romantic small town, they've landed in Schmicago, where things are sexier, darker and not prone to happy endings, which is unfortunate, because unless they can produce on, they're stuck there.
I think I liked this season of the show slightly more than the first. Maybe it's because I'm a little more familiar with these musicals than I am with the ones that inspired the first run. Much of the cast from the first season return, though in new roles - with Josh and Cecily being the only character to remember their last visit. There's no Fred Armisen this time, but Tituss Burgess joins the cast in the Narrator role and is brilliant. Ariana DeBose has a reduced part, but Jane Krakowski is given an expanded one. The key central pairing of Alan Cumming and Kristin Chenoweth return, and both are given much more iconic characters to play around with this time.
The songs are catchy and the performances excellent and at just six episodes it doesn't outstay it's welcome. I'm not sure whether I can think of another group of musicals that would do for a third season (Andrew Lloyd Webber maybe) but if they can think of a way to do it, then I'd certainly be up for watching it.
