- The Spoils of Babylon
The trailer for The Spoils of Babylon hinted at a show I could like: a parody of the overwrought soaps and miniseries of the 1970s and ’80s, but starring contemporary heavyweights like Tim Robbins, Tobey Maguire, and Kristen Wiig. And the backstory is a Möbius strip of metahumor: the miniseries is the truncated version of the fictional film adaptation of the fictional masterpiece novel by the fictional best-selling author Eric Jonrosh (Will Ferrell in Orson-Welles-as-wine-shill mode). But after repeat viewings of the two-part premiere, I just don’t find the joke all that funny.
