lege — when the series finale aired
in 2015. Joining this star-studded
cast of students as their aggres-
sively ill-tempered Spanish teacher
is Ken Jeong (“The Hangover,”
2009). Chevy Chase (National Lam-
poon’s Vacation,” 1983), Jim Rash
(“The Descendants,” 2011) and
Yvette Nicole Brown (“Repo Men,”
2010) also star in this quirky college
comedy.
By Dana Simpson
TV Media
“The Eddy”
Academy Award-winning director
of “La La Land” (2016), Damien
Chazelle, and his team bring a slice
of the Paris jazz scene to Netflix on
Friday, May 8. The eight-episode
limited series tells the story of
Elliot Udo (André Holland, “Moon-
light,” 2016), an American expat
co-managing The Eddy, a fictional
modern-day jazz club in the City
of Lights, alongside his partner,
Farid (Tahar Rahim, “The Past,”
2013). The series is a much darker
take on jazz culture than that of
“La La Land” and focuses on the
raw feelings, financial struggles,
personal traumas and race
dynamics that are at play in the
Parisian music subculture. Each of
the eight episodes homes in on a
leading character and tells their
story, but the main character of
the show is, without a doubt, the
music itself. Written by producing
legend Glen Ballard of “Jagged
Little Pill” fame and Randy Kerber,
Oscar-nominated composer of
“The Color Purple” (1985), the
soundtrack sets the stage for much
of the action and underscores the
themes of the seedy, yet gripping,
Parisian nightlife. The show’s writ-
ers and production team aim to
provide an as true-to-life depiction
of the capital city as possible, go-
ing as far as to incorporate French,
English and Arabic throughout the
dialogue from beginning to end
and shooting the entire series in
Paris rather than in a studio. The
show also stars Amandla Stenberg
(“The Hate U Give,” 2018), Joanna
Kulig (“Cold War,” 2018) and Leïla
“The Walking Dead”
Catch up on the last nine seasons of
“The Walking Dead,” available now
on Netflix. The show, which is cur-
rently working to wrap up Season
10 — the finale was postponed
due to the COVID-19 pandemic —
has been striking fear and excite-
ment into the hearts of television
fans since its debut in 2010. Nine
seasons ago, the show began
with Deputy Sheriff Rick Grimes
(Andrew Lincoln, “Love Actually,”
2003) waking up to a new world
after suffering a coma induced by
an on-the-job gunshot trauma.
As he staggers out of his recovery
room and through the abandoned
hospital looking for a doctor, or
anyone who could shed light on
his situation, he finds that he is
very much alone. Alone, at least,
until he discovers that the dead in
his county have come back to life.
Coming into contact with a group
hiding out and preparing to fight
the zombies, Grimes takes charge
and risks everything in his fight to
survive and hopefully reunite with
his lost family. This iconic thriller
series also stars Norman Reedus
(“The Boondock Saints,” 1999),
Melissa McBride (“The Mist,”
2007), Danai Gurira (“Black Pan-
ther,” 2018), Jeffrey Dean Morgan
(“Watchmen,” 2009) and Steven
Yeun (“Okja,” 2017) and will return
for an 11th season.
André Holland and Joanna Kulig in “The Eddy”
Bekhti (“Paris, je t’aime,” 2006) in
recurring roles.
“The Wrong Missy” (2020)
Adam Sandler fans can delight
in Happy Madison Productions’
newest film coming to Netflix on
Friday, May 8. Starring David Spade
(“Joe Dirt,” 2001) as leading man
Tim Morris, the film follows the
hilarious consequences of techno-
logical privilege gone awry. When
Tim meets his dream girl, Missy
(Molly Sims, “Fired Up!,” 2009),
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and sends a text inviting her to
his corporate retreat, he quickly
learns that he has been texting the
wrong woman, a different Missy
(Lauren Lapkus, “Jurassic World,”
2015), the whole time. Directed by
comedy triple threat Tyler Spindel,
(“The House Bunny,” 2008) and
co-starring household names
Sarah Chalke (“Scrubs”) and Nick
Swardson (“Just Go With It,” 2011),
the film follows the classic comedic
tradition of mistaken identity and
the bumbling-protagonist trope
to deliver lots of hearty laughs to
the audience. The film also features
rapper-turned-actor and television
personality Vanilla Ice (“That’s My
Boy,” 2015).
“Community”
Get schooled by all six seasons of
“Community,” available now on
Netflix. When “Rick and Morty”
creator Dan Harmon released the
series on NBC in 2009, struggling
lawyer Jeff Winger (Joel McHale,
“The Happytime Murders,” 2018),
who faked his bachelor’s degree,
was forced to enroll in community
college to produce a “legitimate”
degree in order to get a decent
job. There he met a group of misfit
students of all ages and created a
Spanish-class study group, which
included the empathetic and
politically conscious Britta (Gillian
Jacobs, “Love”), socially awkward
Abed (Danny Pudi, “Star Trek
Beyond,” 2016), Type-A model
student Annie (Alison Brie, “The
Five-Year Engagement,” 2012) and
former high school football star
Troy (Donald Glover, “Solo: A Star
Wars Story,” 2018). Despite the
passage of time and the loss of a
few returning characters, the gang
was still cracking as many jokes as
ever — and still hoping to graduate
from Greendale Community Col-
Chandler Riggs and Andrew Lincoln as seen in “The
Walking Dead”
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