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Mulligan (TV series)
American animated sitcom From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Mulligan is an American animated apocalyptic sitcom created by Sam Means and Robert Carlock for Netflix.[1][2][3] It premiered on May 12, 2023.[4] Part 2 was released on May 24, 2024.[5]
In the series, an alien invasion destroyed much of humanity, but the aliens were defeated by the working class-hero Matty Mulligan. In the aftermath of the invasion, Mulligan becomes President of the entire human race and he has to lead reconstruction efforts. The regular supporting cast includes Mulligan's girlfriend, a female "super scientist", a historian who became the right-hand man of the president, a reactionary senator who serves as the self-appointed vice-president and aims to revive humanity's past, and a captive alien general who remains on Earth as a prisoner of war.
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Premise
After an alien invasion Earth, what's left of humanity has the chance to start all over again. Survivors will need to work together to avoid repeating the same mistakes.[6][7][8]
Cast
Main
- Nat Faxon as Matty Mulligan,[4] a working-class man who saved Earth from the aliens, and has become President of the human race.
- Chrissy Teigen as Lucy Suwan,[4] Earth's de facto First Lady and in a romantic relationship with Matty.
- Tina Fey as Dr. Farrah Braun,[4] a single mom and super scientist.
- Sam Richardson as Simon Prioleau,[4] a historian and Matty's right-hand man.
- Dana Carvey as Senator Cartwright LaMarr,[4] a person who appointed himself as Vice-President of Earth and wants to return everything to the way it was in the past.
- Phil LaMarr as Axatrax,[4] a well-regarded alien general who is prisoner of the humans, and was formerly imprisoned in the bowling alley of the White House.
Recurring
- Daniel Radcliffe as King Jeremy Fitzhogg,[4] a party-boy who is son of a Lord in England, and with the deaths of the British royal family, has declared himself a King.
- Kevin Michael Richardson as TOD-209,[4] the Pentagon's military cyborg who tries to remember what he was like as a human.
- Ayo Edebiri as General Scarpaccio/Jayson Moody,[4] an aimless teenager who wears a uniform of a Marine general, but heads the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
- Ronny Chieng as Johnny Zhao,[4] a billionaire from Hong Kong who tries to make money important again, working with LaMarr to achieve this goal.
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Guest
- "Weird Al" Yankovic as himself [9]
- Questlove as himself [9]
- Andy Samberg as Prophet Dave
- Ted Danson as Brad Chadman
- Maria Thayer
- Rachel Dratch
- Will Arnett
- Kyle Selig
- Jeff Richmond
- Pepper Teigen
- Jack Grabow
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Episodes
Season 1 (2023–24)
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Production
In January 2021, it was stated that the series would have 20 episodes and be released in 2021.[10][11][12] Tina Fey, Robert Carlock, and Sam Means would be producers, while Ayo Edebiri would be a co-producer.[13][14][15][16] Dan Rubin, executive producer of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt collaborated with Fey, Carlock, and Means, on the series.[17] Eric Gurian, David Miner, Scott Greenberg, and Joel Kuwahara would also be executive producers.[18][19]
In June 2021, Emmy Magazine described the series as likely premiering in 2022 and described it as a "novel medium" with a "far-out premise", with every episode having table reads on Zoom.[20] However, it did not premiere in 2022. In April 2023, it was announced that the series would premiere on May 12, 2023, on Netflix.[4] Part 2 premiered on May 24, 2024.[5]
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Reception
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 50% of 12 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 5.7/10. The website's consensus reads: "Mulligan might feature an appealing spread of voice actors, but it'll need to swap out its stale sense of humor for more incisive jokes if it wants to win another term."[21] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the series a score of 48 out of 100, based on six critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.[22]
The series earned 2.1 million views in its first seven weeks on Netflix, and a further 700,000 views in the last six months of 2023, making it one of the year's least-watched "higher-profile" Netflix productions.[23]
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References
External links
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