If you had the chance to do a six-episode TV show, what would you like to do? It’s not necessarily a simple question, but one thing’s for sure: the answer probably says a lot about you as a person. And that’s something about the making of Maxxx O-T Fagbenle, a Channel 4 production that has just arrived in the U.S. Hulu, so fascinating.
A non-secular cousin of projects such as Turn Up Charlie and Popstar: Never Stop Popping, Maxxx portrays Fagbenle as a former boybander whose career has descended to territory that has been overlooked since abandoning his bandmates for a solo career, and his hedonistic tendencies. they have just intensified. from a painful break with the stick insect Jourdan (Jourdan Dunn).
However, with the help of his new manager Tamzin (Pippa Bennett-Warner), his son followed Amit (Alan Asaad), his obsessed cousin/PA Rose (Helen Monks) and the great love of label owner Don Wild (Christopher Meloni), Maxxx has a moment shot in a genuine career. But the road isn’t the easiest, given the bridges Maxxx has already burned, and whether it’s a funeral, a home party or a live charity concert, Maxxx’s prospect of self-destruction is waiting behind the scenes for an opportunity. Jump.
The desirable thing about this six-episode first season is the fact that there is no doubt that this exhibition, is one hundred percent fagbenle concept, and even though infrequently cannot escape the temptation of a crazy side plot or a higher dramatic camera, it is actually a fairly specific character examining below the surface. Fagbenle is probably the most productive known right now (especially among Hulu subscribers) as Luke, The Still Loyal Husband of June (Elisabeth Moss) in The Handmaid’s Tale, however, he is an actor who has been running hard for over a decade, with support roles on screens that add Quarter, Lookinglife, Happy Endings and more. While his career has allowed him to show a great variety, Maxxx, who also writes and directs, is a unique display of his ability to create a character whose latent absurdities do not undermine his fundamental humanity.
Maxxx’s aid cast benefits from having well-drawn characters to play, and those six episodes not only describe them as tropes, but take them on a journey. Tamzin’s retracted vibraN (she proudly declares that she has an alpha uterus) makes her the best counterpart to Maxxx, while Amit draws Maxxx’s more humane look while having her own existing plot involving a very cute first love. And, oh, if you miss the chaotic power of the Happy Syfy series, which is gone, Christopher Meloni is here to offer you a slightly less polished but no less wild performance. It’s fun to believe what Meloni might say no. So what’s going on in Maxxx, the list can’t really be that long.
Maxxx is far from a sophisticated exhibition: let’s face it, Christopher Meloni plays a character named Don Wild and is the least savage of him, yet the humor and frantic speed of the episodes make him a relatively fast and gentle character. Frenzy. Plus, strangely catchy songs will get stuck in your head in a more than fun way, which is a key element on screens like this. After all, if you don’t think a pop star has genuine musical talent, an exhibition like this can collapse.
Being the production state what it is now, who knows when we’ll see Fagbenle as Luke, making the war against Gilead’s oppression. But in the meantime, Maxxx serves as the television equivalent of a reading on the summer beach, as well as a delicious taste of Fagbenle’s wide diversity of talent: that’s the exhibition he was looking to do, and it’s a smart laugh. Right now, he’s very, very welcome.
Quality: B
Maxxx is now broadcasting in Hulu.