Ilana Glazer potentially starring in apocalyptic comedy series The Suck
The show follows a woman living it up in London before the world ends
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As reported by Variety, Ilana Glazer is the top choice to lead Prime Video’s forthcoming series The Suck. Described as “the upside of [the] apocalypse,” the Afterparty actress would be executive producing and starring as Lydia, a Londoner who’s determined to make the most out of her last year on earth. While further plot details have yet to be shared, the premise sounds like a hedonistic good time, and who doesn’t love watching Glazer live it up in a major city? We can only hope that there will be phone wigs.
The Suck was created by Ally Israelson, who previously wrote for the Jenna Fischer ABC sitcom Splitting Up Together and Guilty Party on Paramount+, starring Kate Beckinsale. She was also an associate producer on the films All The Bright Places and Beatriz At Dinner. Leo Pearlman, Jeff Grosvenor, Saskia Schuster, and Susie Fox would be joining Glazer and Israelson as executive producers.
Glazer rose to fame as the co-lead and co-creator of the beloved series Broad City with Abbi Jacobson, which ran on Comedy Central for five seasons before its conclusion in 2019. She previously collaborated with Prime Video on the release of her debut stand-up comedy special The Planet Is Burning in 2020. She co-wrote and starred in the Hulu original horror movie False Positive, which came out last year. Recently, Glazer was part of The Afterparty’s star-studded cast, alongside Tiffany Haddish, Ben Schwartz, Ike Barinholtz, Sam Richardson, John Early, and Dave Franco; the Apple TV+ murder mystery comedy has been renewed for a second season.
Apocalypse stories have, for whatever reason, remained something of a draw these days, with the movies Don’t Look Up, How It Ends, and Silent Night all being released last year. The world-ending event central to The Suck is unknown at this time.
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Those jerk aliens or angels or whatever from Knowing since they knew the future could have at least given us a heads up so we didn’t spend everything up to our last day on Earth going to the bloody office!
“Yeah…why don’t you go back to the jerk town on the jerk planet that you’re the JERK MAYOR OF?!”
The world’s ending, how do you think she is??
Well, les’see…if you’re Ilana Glazer the answer is “YAZZZZZZZ!”; if you’re Stephen Colbert the answer is “Eez poh-tay-toh!”
Bold to name it after Glazer’s career post Broad City Season 2.
Is this like her thing: playing hard-partying chick-ladies in a tough town in a show with a name that makes you not want to watch it?
We never got a review for The Planet Is Burning.
It was a little underdone.
Happy now?
I skimmed through a bit of it and even as a big Broad City fan I thought it was pretty terrible.
broad city truly feels like 100 years ago.
I finally got around to Don’t Look Up and after all the sturm und drang about its political messaging thought it was both fully entertaining and took a piss on pretty much everyone in Washington, with a nice swipe at tech weirdos.