Get Shorty

In no way does it lose the sublime sauce that lubricates everything here--how movies and movie-making, or just the allure of Hollywood, capture the imagination of those outside that world while warping those within it. That's where the best comedy comes from in Get Shorty and there's no letting up on that element in the early going of season two.

Romano is perfectly cast precisely because this is the character he knows how to play. With a gritty, energetic, and page-turning tale to work with, Miles is a great host for the series’ best moments.

Rollicking second season. [20 Aug - 2 Sep 2018, p.11]

Mr. O’Dowd is a delight as we watch Miles get sucked into the hell that Hollywood can be. And the series made an inspired choice by casting Ray Romano as Rick, a failing producer whose help Miles seeks. The two, Droll and Droller, pair deliciously, but they don’t hog the proceedings, leaving plenty of room for all sorts of other colorful characters to make an impression.

Get Shorty is an intriguing, curious new show. ... Get Shorty is a little wobbly in the quality of the writing.

A movie about movies--or a show about movies--succeeds when it is itself sharper and funnier than most other fare available, when it can spin circles around a basic B-plot. Get Shorty, the show, looks and feels a lot like everything else--expensive, but flat.

By refusing to either challenge their own perspective or get into the weeds of why the big studios are in such dire straits and mostly release market-tested dreck, Get Shorty pigeonholes itself into mediocrity, something that neither Chili Palmer nor Miles Daly can abide by.