Photo: Patrick Wymore/TBS
Miracle Workers, the anthology series based in part on Simon Rich’s
What In God’s Name, has always made a game of deploying its stakes. The first season opened with God’s (Steve Buscemi, in all his leisure suit-clad glory) plan to blow up the Earth so he could focus on his latest dream: running a fusion restaurant. Tensions were high, as the fate of humanity rested on two people (played by Sasha Compère and Jon Bass) falling in love, but the story still made time for great sight gags and the ineffable bond between Prayer Department angels Craig (Daniel Radcliffe) and Eliza (Geraldine Viswanathan). The series captured Rich’s inspired interplay between the ordinary and extraordinary–
Monday, July 12, 2021 1:00 am
TBS series resets in time
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After spending its first two seasons in the afterlife and the Dark Ages, the TBS anthology comedy “Miracle Workers” moves on to the 19th century for a storyline in the Old West.
“Miracle Workers: Oregon Trail,” premiering Tuesday, places the series repertory of Steve Buscemi, Daniel Radcliffe, Geraldine Viswanathan, Karan Soni and Jon Bass in the year 1844, where the Rev. Ezekiel Brown (Radcliffe), an idealistic small-town preacher, must team with outlaw Benny the Teen (Buscemi) and Prudence Aberdeen (Viswanathan), an adventurous prairie wife, to lead a wagon train west on the Oregon Trail.