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Perfect harmony series12/28/2023 ![]() I don’t understand how this wasn’t a conversation that came up right at the beginning of the development process. Pilot director Jason Winer ( Modern Family) is an Emmy-nominated master of the single-camera comedy form, but there’s nothing he can do to reduce the choppiness of an episode in which each act break marks the end of what could or should have been a full episode - except those full episodes would have let characters develop and allowed for some sort of cumulative effect to build. Instead, what probably would have been a 100-minute feature film becomes a confusingly gutted 21-minute pilot in which every plot machination is unmotivated, every character shift illogical and every attempted emotional moment unearned. ![]() That seems like a fairly reasonable template for the first season of a TV show, right? A little Glee, a little Pitch Perfect and a little Mr. And maybe by the time the choir competes at regionals, this discordant group of outsiders will, as a unit, finally be in… perfect harmony. Inspired by their ineptitude and, more so, by the desire to topple the choir from a rival mega-church (overseen by John Carroll Lynch with a bad hairpiece), Arthur is lured to assist the choir, which features a bubbly local waitress (Anna Camp), her impressively dumb ex-husband (Will Greenberg), a talented bass (Geno Segers) with a crush on the waitress, the church’s well-meaning reverend (Rizwan Manji) and the woman who gets offended when Arthur says rude stuff (Tymberlee Hill).įrom here, you can guess the drill. Drunk and popping pills, Arthur gets a sign from on high when he overhears a rehearsal by a small-town church’s choir. Despite the ultimate clash of sensibilities, Arthur and his newfound cohorts, including temporary choirmaster Ginny (Camp), help each other reinvent and rediscover a little happiness just when they all need it most.Though they might get better eventually, and the basic elements are probably there, Perfect Harmony and Sunnyside are two of the more confusing and disappointing broadcast pilots of the fall.Ĭreated by Lesley Wake Webster, Perfect Harmony is the story of Arthur Cochran (Bradley Whitford), formerly the chair of Princeton’s music department, now marooned in rural Kentucky and contemplating suicide after the death of his wife. Perfect Harmony, as NBC puts it, is what happens when former Princeton music professor Arthur Cochran (Bradley Whitford) unexpectedly stumbles into choir practice at a small-town church, finds an oddball group of singers that is out of tune in more ways than one. Other TV credits include FX’s Anger Management and Lifetime’s Becoming Santa. Bundy will be a recurring guest star.Īlso known for her country music recordings, Bundy has recurred in CBS’ How I Met Your Mother and on The CW’s Hart of Dixie. ![]() EXCLUSIVE: Laura Bell Bundy, who was Tony-nominated for originating the role of Elle Woods in Broadway’s 2007 Legally Blonde: The Musical, has been cast in a recurring role on NBC comedy Perfect Harmony.īundy will play Kimmy, a high school mean girl who hides her cruelty behind a smile and becomes a rival against Ginny (Anna Camp). ![]()
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