I Love That for You
TV show or Movie: TV show
Where to watch: Showtime
Premise: The show stars Bayer as Joanna Gold, an aspiring host for shopping channel SVN, who lies that her childhood cancer has returned in order to keep her job; the story is inspired by Bayer’s personal experience with childhood leukemia.
Cast: Vanessa Bayer; Molly Shannon; Jenifer Lewis; Paul James; Ayden Mayeri; Matt Rogers; Punam Patel
What it reminds me of: 30 Rock, Great News.
Why I like it: When two SNL alums get together to make a show about the behind-the-scenes craziness of a home shopping network channel, how can you not want to watch it? I absolutely love Molly Shannon and I will watch anything that she does. This show is also semi-autobiographical as Bayers did have childhood leukemia and co-created this show. Jennifer Lewis plays the head of the network and is a no-nonsense character who’s character development was very well written and done. The supporting cast is very comical, filling the roles of the other hosts at the network.
A lot of the episodes are directed by comic genius Michael Showalter who recently directed the Oscar-nominated The Eyes of Tammy Faye and the hopefully Emmy-nominated The Dropout. Showalter is becoming the new Jay Chandrasekhar or Fred Savage, directed a bunch of episodes of television comedies.