By Robert Lloyd Los Angeles Times
January 8, 2021
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Ted Danson, left, as Mayor Neil Bremer, and Bobby Moynihan as Jayden Kwapis in NBC s Mr. Mayor. (Mitchell Haddad/NBC)
With “Mr. Mayor,” Robert Carlock and Tina Fey of “30 Rock” and “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” fame take their satirical live-action cartoon machine west to Los Angeles, enlisting Ted Danson in a promising semi-political comedy about a semi-political mayor. (It is not “Veep: L.A.,” nor it is related to the tragicomedy currently being played out in our actual halls of power.)
Danson plays Neil Bremer, a rich Los Angeles businessman – locals with a moderately long memory may think of Richard Riordan – who finds himself the city’s mayor, almost by accident – which may briefly call to mind Donald Trump, though that is where that resemblance ends. Bremer has pulled himself out of lethargic retirement in part to cut a better figure in the eyes of his daughter, Orly (Kyla Kenedy), who resents hi
With “Mr. Mayor,” Robert Carlock and Tina Fey of “30 Rock” and “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” fame take their satirical live-action cartoon machine west to Los Angeles, enlisting Ted Danson in a promising semi-political comedy about a semi-political mayor. (It is not “Veep: L.A.,” nor it is related to the tragicomedy currently being played out in our actual halls of power.)
Danson plays Neil Bremer, a rich Los Angeles businessman locals with a moderately long memory may think of Richard Riordan who finds himself the city’s mayor, almost by accident which may briefly call to mind Donald Trump, though that is where that resemblance ends. Bremer has pulled himself out of lethargic retirement in part to cut a better figure in the eyes of his daughter, Orly (Kyla Kenedy), who resents him in a reflexive teenage way “Stop controlling my narrative,” she’ll say which is to say she also doesn’t. (In fact, Danson and Kenedy have the show’s best chemistry.)
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