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Documentary Now! - Season 2
Fred Armisen's Documentary Now starring Fred Armisen, Bill Hader and Helen Mirren is back in its next season. This narrates the current worship with documentaries. Season two consists six distinctive stories and stylistic approaches paying homage to the doc format.
10 June 1967, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
1 April 2004, Huntsville, Alabama, USA
22 June 1943, Oldham, Lancashire, England, UK
13 August 1962, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
2 January 1971, Santa Clara County, California, USA
12 August 1952, Uccle, Belgium
24 November 1948, Yonkers, New York, USA
5 May 1944, Ammanford, Wales, UK
14 January 1941, Bascom, Florida, USA
September 14, 2016
One of TV's best comedies, Documentary Now! is also one of its strongest homages to classic documentary films. The first one tackled for the second season is the suitably political "The Bunker."
September 28, 2016
Season Two isn't purely a high concept exercise in direct imitation, there will also be plenty of LOLs.
October 17, 2016
Yes, Documentary Now! gives Armisen and Hader the chance to play the same oddballs they used to play on SNL, but in a more extended, nuanced manner.
September 14, 2016
The replication of a low-budget, earnestly progressive public TV broadcast is impeccable, abetted by Helen Mirren's hilariously solemn introductions of the films.
September 16, 2016
Welcome back, Documentary Now! I love you so much, you weirdo.
September 16, 2016
The show's stars, Fred Armisen and Bill Hader, elevate every episode with their performances, but it's a comedy that wrings laughs mostly with its rigorous attention to detail.
September 27, 2016
Documentary Now! continues to surprise and entertain from week to week with such varied episodes, with some leaning toward slapstick and others more subdued.
September 15, 2016
It's comedy absent a neon sign and an obvious "here it comes" moment. It's laughter when you least expect it and it lingers because of that artfully constructed set-up.
September 16, 2016
Documentary Now makes a solid case that it could very well be a comedy series that fits that bill, but the series' ambitions remain just a bit too hit-and-miss to fully realize that promise.
September 16, 2016
[It] not only succeeds in pulling off the documentary parody that it's going for, but also in just being downright funny and another good showcase of Hader and Armisen.
