TBS' Miracle Workers mostly falls flat in trying to jump on the afterlife TV bandwagon

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"Too much of the world and its rules feel half-baked, especially compared to the meticulous world building of immediate predecessors like Forever or The Good Place," says Proma Khosla of the TBS comedy starring Daniel Radcliffe as an angel and Steve Buscemi as God. She adds: "Miracle Workers is not objectively a bad show, but it doesn't pull its weight in adding to the pantheon of television-tackles-death. If you're going to go for the big ideas, you have to commit, to swing big, to take a leap of faith like Buscemi's God pitching Earth to investors. It was a weird idea (the f*ck is with giraffes!?), but he committed to it."

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