Documentary Now! - Season 2
Documentary Now! - Season 2
2016
Comedy
TV Season
Season 2 - Documentary Now parodies the current obsession with documentaries. Season one features six different stories and stylistic approaches paying tribute to the doc format. (imdb)
Writers:
Seth Meyers
13 total credits
Credits include: Journey to the Center of the Earth, Village of the Damned, I Don't Know How She Does It, Documentary Now! and Late Night with Seth Meyers
108 total credits
Credits include: Eurotrip, The Super Mario Bros. Movie, The Mitchells vs the Machines, Confessions of a Shopaholic and Battle of the Sexes
81 total credits
Credits include: Superbad, Tropic Thunder, Her, Inside Out and Forgetting Sarah Marshall
29 total credits
Credits include: Hawkeye, John Mulaney: The Comeback Kid, John Mulaney & the Sack Lunch Bunch, Documentary Now! and Staten Island Summer
Starring:
Helen Mirren
142 total credits
Dame Helen Mirren was born to an English mother and an exiled Russian aristocrat in Chiswick, London. She has made her name on both stage and screen, and is the only person to portray both Elizabeth I and Elizabeth II (a 2006 role for which she is an Oscar front-runner).
108 total credits
Credits include: Eurotrip, The Super Mario Bros. Movie, The Mitchells vs the Machines, Confessions of a Shopaholic and Battle of the Sexes
81 total credits
Credits include: Superbad, Tropic Thunder, Her, Inside Out and Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Ratings & Reviews
The Bunker (2016) - S2E1
Parody of The War Room (1993) about two fictional political rivals and their campaign staffs during the 1992 US presidential election. (imdb)
Young Colombian chefs learn the tricks of the restaurant trade from their strict father, Juan, whose celebrated restaurant only serves one dish: chicken and rice. (imdb)
Parody of Spalding Gray's cult performance film Swimming to Cambodia (1987). Writer Parker Gail monologues about his troubled relationship with his girlfriend. She then gets a rebuttal. (imdb)
Globesman (2016) - S2E4
Deadpan spoof of notable documentary Salesman (1969). Four 1950s salesmen go door to door trying to sell globes to disinterested people. (imdb)
Final Transmission (2016) - S2E5
Deadpan spoof of Talking Heads' famous concert film Stop Making Sense (1984). In 1987, a new wave band called "Test Pattern" plays their final concert. The show also splices in clips from an interview with the band. The film is called "Final Transmission" (imdb)
Starring Fred Armisen and Bill Hader. A candid docu-memoir of Hollywood Legend Jerry Wallach, and his forty year quest to win an Oscar. (imdb)
Starring Fred Armisen and Bill Hader. A candid docu-memoir of Hollywood Legend Jerry Wallach, and his forty year quest to win an Oscar. (imdb)
Cast & Info
Writers:
Seth Meyers 13 total credits
Credits include: Journey to the Center of the Earth, Village of the Damned, I Don't Know How She Does It, Documentary Now! and Late Night with Seth Meyers
108 total credits
Credits include: Eurotrip, The Super Mario Bros. Movie, The Mitchells vs the Machines, Confessions of a Shopaholic and Battle of the Sexes
81 total credits
Credits include: Superbad, Tropic Thunder, Her, Inside Out and Forgetting Sarah Marshall
29 total credits
Credits include: Hawkeye, John Mulaney: The Comeback Kid, John Mulaney & the Sack Lunch Bunch, Documentary Now! and Staten Island Summer
Starring:
Helen Mirren 142 total credits
Dame Helen Mirren was born to an English mother and an exiled Russian aristocrat in Chiswick, London. She has made her name on both stage and screen, and is the only person to portray both Elizabeth I and Elizabeth II (a 2006 role for which she is an Oscar front-runner).
108 total credits
Credits include: Eurotrip, The Super Mario Bros. Movie, The Mitchells vs the Machines, Confessions of a Shopaholic and Battle of the Sexes
81 total credits
Credits include: Superbad, Tropic Thunder, Her, Inside Out and Forgetting Sarah Marshall
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