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- 2021
- TV-MA
- Peacock
- 2021
- TV-MA
- Peacock
Summary MacGruber (Will Forte) is finally released from jail after 10 years and with help from Vicki St. Elmo (Kristen Wiig) and Dixon Piper (Ryan Phillippe), seeks to stop Brigadier Commander Enos Queeth (Billy Zane) from destroying the world.
Created By: Will Forte, John Solomon, Jorma Taccone
- 2021
- TV-MA
- Peacock
- 2021
- TV-MA
- Peacock
MacGruber (2021)
Season 1 Premiere: Dec 16, 2021
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6.4
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Summary MacGruber (Will Forte) is finally released from jail after 10 years and with help from Vicki St. Elmo (Kristen Wiig) and Dixon Piper (Ryan Phillippe), seeks to stop Brigadier Commander Enos Queeth (Billy Zane) from destroying the world.
Created By: Will Forte, John Solomon, Jorma Taccone
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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55% Positive
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9% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
64
55% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
36% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
9% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Goofy dresses, goofy names, goofy voices, or that trusty tape deck, “MacGruber” has everything you could want from a comedy homecoming nearly a dozen years in the making.
"MacGruber" the show is about as stupidly funny as you would hope. ... When it gets back to Forte and whatever dimwitted plan is forming in MacGruber's head, this series proves why the character deserves such an epic resurrection, and a second season.
A fun binge for fans of Forte and/or "whoever smelt it dealt it" jokes. [Feb 2022, p.101]
In all, whether “MacGruber” works for you, or doesn’t, will depend on your patience for sophomoric puns and your knowledge of and deep interest in soldier-of-fortune flicks. But while much of the show can leave the uninitiated cold, its unity of tone, and its ability to keep spinning its simple premise into madness, are genuinely impressive. Chalk up another win for Forte’s unkillable hero.
The show still goofs amusingly on how the one-man-army brand of patriotism sold by so many action movies is actually just raging narcissism, and Forte remains an expert at poor attempts to disguise a tantrum as laconic cool. ... It’s a shame, though, that this supersized version can’t sustain its satirical ambitions or its goofy emotional notes as well as, say, a longer-form Ferrell effort like Talladega Nights.
This latest incarnation hasn’t quite reached the popping point for the brand, but it also doesn’t feel like TV has somehow become its ideal vehicle. The standout parts are still every bit as funny, while the gaps between those parts have only grown.
An unnecessary reminder that not everything that's funny for three minutes works for two hours, much less four.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 19 User Ratings
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 19 User Ratings
6.4
58% Positive
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
16% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
26% Negative
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Production Company:
- BCD Travel
- Broadway Video
- Universal Television
Initial Release Date: Dec 16, 2021
Number of seasons: 2 Seasons
Rating: TV-MA