Given how well they've done with spoofing Saturday Night Live-style series (30 Rock) and survivor stories (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), it's always good to learn of a new project from the Rock team (or at least some of them). Their latest, Mulligan, promises to have fun with the sort of post-apocalyptic situation left behind when a Roland Emmerich movie finishes. Check out the first look scene…
Created by Robert Carlock and Sam Means, the show is set after Earth is destroyed by an alien attack, and a rag-tag band of survivors has to start society over from scratch.
It’s an opportunity to learn from humanity’s past mistakes and get things right this time. Or make the same mistakes all over again. Probably the second one.
The cast for this one is led by Nat Faxon as Matty Mulligan a working class everyman from Boston, Matty single handedly saved Earth from the alien invasion, but now he’s in way over his head as the leader of (what’s left of) humanity. The only thing he wants more than to be loved by everyone is to win over Lucy Swan (Chrissy Teigen), a beauty queen he fell for during the invasion. But both will require him to actually think about someone other than himself for once.
Among the ensemble is Tina Fey as Dr. Farrah Braun, a military scientist and single mother, Sam Richardson as the world's only surviving historian, Dana Carvey as Senator Cartwright LaMarr, a simpering, scheming politician, Phil LaMarr as Axatrax, a surviving alien general who can't believe he's a prisoner of such a stupid race, but who becomes an adviser to Matty – even as he has his own agenda, and Daniel Radcliffe as Jeremy Fitzhog, the party-boy son of an English Lord who was working in the British Embassy when the aliens attacked, but everyone in America thinks he’s smart because of his accent. And when he realizes he’s the last surviving British citizen, he declares himself King.
Mulligan will land on Netflix on 12 May.