The first season, set mostly in Heaven, was based on Rich’s 2012 novel ““What in God’s Name?” and featured Buscemi as an exhausted Deity and Radcliffe and Viswanathan as low-level angels in the Department of (mostly un-) Answered Prayers. That its subtitle is “End Times” feels significant.Ĭreated by Simon Rich (“ Man Seeking Woman,” “ An American Pickle”), “Miracle Workers” has told a different, unrelated story each time out while maintaining its main cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Steve Buscemi, Geraldine Viswanathan, Jon Bass and Karan Soni.
The last TBS comedy standing is the delightful “ Miracle Workers,” whose fourth and final season premieres Monday, quite possibly writing a finish not just to the show but to the network’s interest in original scripted programming. All these shows are worth seeking out, though not necessarily easy to find. These included the “Naked Gun”-esque “ Angie Tribeca,” the “Lost”-ish “ Wrecked,” “ The Detour” (my favorite family comedy maybe ever, from Jason Jones and Samantha Bee, whose late, late-night show was also on the network), the first season of “Search Party” and the alien-abduction ensemble piece “ People of Earth,” which made particularly good use of headliner Wyatt Cenac. In the mid to late 2010s, the basic-cable network TBS went in, in a small but creatively interesting way, for original scripted comedies, fielding a number of shows that were smart and/or silly, broad and/or nuanced, and often a little bit wicked.
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