If you were hoping Mike Myers would still be Mike Myers even after basically taking over a decade off, you can rest easy, it seems.
His commitment to wearing wigs and prosthetics remains alive in The Pentaverate, where he’ll play eight characters in total, including a few beyond the titular secret society like a news anchor and also a couple of different conspiracy theorists devoted to exposing the sinister cabal-although are you still a conspiracy theorist if your theories are true? Along the way there’ll be a healthy amount of the low-brow humor Myers is known for, as well as the “ain’t I a stinker” mugging he loves to indulge in.
After that movie bombed he didn’t pop up with a new character for almost a decade, when he hosted a short-lived revival of The Gong Show as the fictional British comedian Tommy Maitland. This is the biggest comedy project Myers has worked on since his disastrous 2008 film The Love Guru, give or take a Shrek sequel. The show’s Illuminati-inspired concept features Myers playing several roles-one of which is Shep Gordon, the real-life music manager of acts like Alice Cooper and Blondie who Myers directed a documentary about in 2013. They’re premiering the comedian’s new TV show, The Pentaverate, on May 5, marking Myers’ return to the kind of character-based comedy he became known for on Saturday Night Live and in the Austin Powers movies. Is the world ready for the Mike Myers comeback? Netflix obviously thinks so. Stars: Mike Myers, Ken Jeong, Keegan-Michael Key, Debi Mazar, Richard McCabe, Jennifer Saunders, Lydia West Here are 12 of the biggest new shows at Netflix released in the past two months. We’ve skipped reality shows and focused on recent narrative series.Īs always, some of these new Netflix series we recommend heartily and others aren’t quite our cup of streaming tea, but there’s definitely something for everyone below, especially if you don’t mind subtitles.
We’ve compiled a running list of the all the biggest new Netflix original shows and exclusive releases from the streaming giant’s partners, and we’ll continue to update it as new shows get added. Netflix is releasing so many original new TV series, it can be easy to lose track of the latest shows.