Starring
Rob McElhenney, Charlotte Nicdao, Ashly Burch, Jessie Ennis, Imani Hakim, David Hornsby, Danny Pudi, F. Murray Abraham
Premieres
Format
Half-hour comedy; complete second season watched for review
It’s to that end that the show’s second season picks up right where its first (and two excellent, pandemic-themed inter-season episodes) left off, as visionary game designer Ian Grimm (Rob McElhenney) and long-suffering chief engineer Poppy Li (Charlotte Nicdao) try to figure out how to share authority in the wake of Ian promoting Poppy to be his equal on their massively successful online game. The clash between two titanic egos smooth-talking ideas guy Ian on one hand, technical perfectionist Poppy on the other produces the typical over-blown shouting matches, mutual accusations of “cancellation,” and occasional tortured divorce metaphors that you might expect. But it also allows Nicdao and McElhenney to make liberal use of