With the seemingly endless coverage of the dozens of TV show premiering this fall, it's always nice to have a trailer just pop out of the blue and surprise you. I had literally heard nothing about Amazon's new show Forever until this first promo dropped, and it's exciting that it hails from some of my favorite people and looks great.
Co-created by Alan Yang (an Emmy winner for Master of None) and Matt Hubbard (an Emmy winner for 30 Rock), who both worked on Parks and Recreation, the show stars Maya Rudolph and Fred Armisen, who have always been funny, even if the writing didn't live up it (looking at you, lean years of SNL). They play a long-married couple who find themselves questioning everything when they shake up their vacation plans.
The trailer is pretty enigmatic, but honestly it could have just been a title card with the people involved and I would have been sold.
All episodes of the first season of Forever premiere on Prime Video on Friday, September 14.
About Kip Mooney
Like many film critics born during and after the 1980s, my hero is Roger Ebert. The man was already the best critic in the nation when he won the Pulitzer in 1975, but his indomitable spirit during and after his recent battle with cancer keeps me coming back to read not only his reviews but his insightful commentary on the everyday. But enough about a guy you know a lot about.
I knew I was going to be a film critic—some would say a snob—in middle school, when I had to voraciously defend my position that The Royal Tenenbaums was only a million times better than Adam Sandler’s remake of Mr. Deeds. From then on, I would seek out Wes Anderson’s films and avoid Sandler’s like the plague.
Still, I like to think of myself as a populist, and I’ll be just as likely to see the next superhero movie as the next Sundance sensation. The thing I most deplore in a movie is laziness. I’d much rather see movies with big ambitions try and fail than movies with no ambitions succeed at simply existing. I’m also a big advocate of fun-bad movies like The Room and most of Nicolas Cage’s work.
In the past, I’ve written for The Dallas Morning News and the North Texas Daily, which I edited for a semester. I also contributed to Dallas-based Pegasus News, which in the circle of life, is now part of The Dallas Morning News, where I got my big break in 2007. Eventually, I’d love to write and talk about film full-time, but until that’s a viable career option, I work as an auditor for Wells Fargo.
I hope to one day meet my hero, go to the Toronto International Film Festival, and compete on Jeopardy. Until then, I’m excited to share my love of film with you.
