Winter be Bingeing 26' - Rooster - Season One

Rooster is the second thirty minute comedy I completed whilst I was living my best life in Bangkok. Created by Bill Lawrence + Matt Tarses & streaming on HBO Max. Or Singapore Airlines if you are travelling them.

They currently feature titles from Paramount+, Stan (Aussie movie Beats makes it), HBO Max and Apple TV.

Starring Steve Carell, Rooster premiered back in March, to positive reviews. The following month, the series was renewed for a second season. 

At the 78th Primetime Emmy Awards, Carell received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series.

The series is set on the New England campus of Ludlow College, centring on well-tred and semi-dysfunctional author Greg Russo's complicated relationship with his daughter Katie. Katie, an art history instructor, is shown navigating campus life during a separation from her husband, another professor at the fictional Ludlow. He has taken a graduate student as a lover. 

The show also investigates academic and administrative waters.

Alongside Carell, Phil Dunster, Charly Clive, Danielle Deadwyler, Lauren Tsai, John C. McGinley, Annie Mumolo, Connie Britton, Robby Hoffman, plus finally, Scott MacArthur all star in this new comedy.

I really enjoyed this series. Across ten episodes, there were laugh out loud moments, heartfelt moments, whilst I actually didn't hate Steve Carell's performance.

The series starts off with Greg Russo is a middle-aged author of a series of commercially popular beach read novels about a private investigator named Rooster. He arrives at Ludlow College, a liberal arts college in New England, to present a talk on his books, organised by English professor Dylan Shepard.

His real reason for coming to Ludlow is to check on his daughter Katie, an art professor at the college, whose husband and fellow professor Archie has recently left her for a graduate student named Sunny. Katie assures her father that everything is fine, but he encourages her to talk to Archie. 

On his first night at Ludlow, Greg and Dylan share a drink at the local inn and reminisce about their lives. He offers to walk her home, but gently rebuffs her advances. The next day, Katie goes to Archie's home and learns that Sunny is pregnant; after forcing Archie out, Katie burns his most prized possession—a first-edition copy of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace—in the fireplace, only for the fire to go out of control and burn Archie's house down. 

When Greg arrives at the scene, Katie refuses to deny her involvement in causing the fire.

If this sounds like your bag, book a flight on Singapore Airlines, binge this whilst enjoying their amazing service. Not a sponsored post lol.

HBO and HBO Max, you are back in the comedy game! Well done. Good effort. Can't wait for season two.