SummaryThe comedy based on the Blair Tindell memoir "Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs & Classical Music," follows the life of New York Symphony oboist Hailey (Lola Kirke) as Rodrigo (Gael Garcia Bernal), a new conductor who has unique methods, takes over the orchestra.
SummaryThe comedy based on the Blair Tindell memoir "Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs & Classical Music," follows the life of New York Symphony oboist Hailey (Lola Kirke) as Rodrigo (Gael Garcia Bernal), a new conductor who has unique methods, takes over the orchestra.
Mozart in the Jungle, which was adapted from Blair Tindall’s memoir of the same name, is surprisingly good, whether you’re into classical music or not. In fact, it’s almost as good as something you might find on HBO, which is what Amazon needs if it wants to succeed in the online television business.
The show is funny, but never gut-bustingly so; it’s most often a triumph of atmosphere, a hangout show with a tremendous (and too infrequently engaged) sense of tension.
The series nails everything that NBC's Smash failed to do with the world of Broadway theater last year, providing a rollicking backstage look at the crazy, temperamental people engaged in artistic expression.
It’s not the best-plotted series: stories tumble by like clothes in an off-kilter dryer. But there’s charm in intimate moments, as when two worldly women share confidences, or a lovely sequence in which Rodrigo wanders around the city, sniffing the air and playing pickup chess.