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The Miracle of Shelley Duvall
Hey, if it takes a picture of a pretty lady with an ample bosom to convince you to watch Great News, then mission accomplished. I won’t be the one to tell you that they don’t break out a Beyoncé wind machine for every episode because you should discover that on your own by binge-watching the NBC workplace comedy series. Right now! Go, start!
Because while star Briga Heelan looks super hot in that scene, Great News also happens to be one of the best comedies on TV right now — and we’d like to keep it that way. As rumors swirl that last week’s season two finale could serve as the show’s series finale as well, it’s time to catch up on the show that’s nearly impossible not to like. For instance, do you enjoy these things: Tina Fey, smart, quippy jokes, former Saturday Night Live cast members including Ana Gasteyer, Rachel Dratch, Tim Meadows and Chris Parnell; and Nicole Richie music videos? Oh you do? Well season two had all of those things!
Seasons one and two are available now on NBC.com for binge-watching (and the complete season two is on Hulu), and at a total of 23 half-hour episodes, you could tear through it all in a weekend (or a day if you were really determined!). Great News is the closest television relative to 30 Rock that we currently have available at our fingertips and eyeballs, and missing this one would be a big mistake.
Great News is thoroughly smart, not just in the way the show comments on news programming, but for the jokes that fly at an alarmingly high rate. The co-worker characters are endlessly entertaining, constantly spitting out increasingly ridiculous lines of dialogue while evolving into people you can’t help but care about and root for. They’re always the butt of the joke, and they seem to like it that way.
Bottom line: this show is in danger of getting cancelled. Why its incredibly smart and sharp jokes haven’t taken over the internet in gifs and tweets and memes the way fellow NBC comedy The Good Place has will remain one of the biggest current mysteries, but this show is just as worthy. Great News is wacky and delightful and frankly just a ton of fun to watch, and with a crowded but stellar upcoming slate of comedies for NBC, this one deserves to be part of the group. If you’ve been thinking about catching up, you better do it right away, because a cancellation for this show would be the very opposite of great news.
