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out of 4 stars. This is truly one of the 5 best comedies on TV right now, and I hope against hope Starz goes the full-court press route in telling the Emmy folks, this is a show you cannot do without in as many comedy series categories as possible. Everybody on the cast shined tonight. And Kristen Bell...I am in awe. Her movie career is revving up, so this may have been the last time we see her on a regular episode. If this was her TV series coda for now, what a way to go out. Frak any 30 Rock female guest star's turn this past season. KB buried them all with her performance tonight. Give her the Guest Comedy Actress Emmy now and be done with it. And hand trophies to Adam Scott, Lizzy Caplan, and Martin Starr, while yer at it. You done gods damned good, Rob and John. All of Party Down. I will miss this show like I missed BSG in its half-year to year hiatuses. But we saw as close to comedic perfection here as it gets.

Ok, with the season ending on that hilarious note it makes me wonder, is this the best first season of a comedy since Arrested Development? Extras was pretty good, but nothing else is coming to mind.

I thought Kristen Bell knocked it out of the park. She was channeling Maude Lebowski when hitting on Henry at the end, very funny stuff.

Can't wait for next season.

We'd have never checked this out if not for you blogging about it Alan. We watched an episode on Directv's "The 101 Network" and loved it so much, we immediately put the entire series into our Netflix streaming queue. We watched all the episodes within a 36 hour period (sad, maybe? ;) ) and are already waiting for the second season.

If this were on HBO we'd be hearing about how great it is, because it is great. Nearly perfect actually. More laughs per minute than anything on TV.

My favorite new show.

Alan, thanks for the early reviews, as I wouldn't have checked it out otherwise. Also, great interview.

I love Paul Rudd, but Adam Scott leaves nothing wanting.

Lizzy Caplan is adorable.

Martin Starr and Ryan Hansen have incredible chemistry... Jim-Dwight level of chemistry.

Jane Lynch is a veteran who nails every role, and Jennifer Coolidge stepped into it last minute and did a great job as well.

Ken Marino was Ken Marino. That deer-in-headlights panic attack he does every episode is great to watch.

Kristin Bell... what else is there to say about her? She is phenomenal and has been marvelous since VM.

What a great season. I tell all my friends to watch it.

From Jan:

Great show, and I sure hope everyone comes back for the second season--they're a great ensemble. I'm going to have to go back and watch the first episodes again now that I've become more familiar with all of the characters. I seemed to enjoy the episodes more and more as the season went on, and I'm thinking it's just because I felt like I knew each one of them a little better each time. Thanks for the reviews, Alan.

Absolutely fantastic episode and KBell nailed it as usual! I still prefer Jane Lynch to Jennifer Coolidge though, so I hope FOX would be willing to play nice, if it's not impacting Glee at all!

I hope we get to see Kristen Bell, Jason Dohring & Enrico all come back in the second season but I'd absolutely *love* if Francis Capra joined Party Down as a cater waiter. The comic possibilities are endless, especially since most people assume he's Latino instead of Italian! Considering Francis actually a naturally funny guy, it would be perfect!

Fantastic interview(s), Alan. Thank you.

Can't wait for this show to come back. What a delightful, unforced yet wonderfully structured gem. And the chemistry of the cast is amazing.

Hoping Jane L can come back. From what Rob T said when I interviewed him a few weeks ago, Season 2 won't start filming until around the end of the year, some time in the last few months of the year. Given that Glee is in production right now, I can't see that that would take up Jane's time for the entire rest of 2009. In any case, I'm hoping Starz and Fox can work it out.

Given that, as Thomas and Enbom say, they really know the actors' strengths and the show has a rep as a fun place for guest stars, I'm expecting an even better time next year.

Alan, in the comments of your last Cupid post you suggested that there would be relevant information about network meddling regarding the Cupid remake in this interview. Did I misread that, or did you decide to hold that over for another post?

Thank you so much for this interview, Alan - your showrunner talks are invaluable treats for the discerning scripted-TV-nerd.

I embarrass a bit too easily to be a wholehearted fan of the crescendoing-farce structure Party Down employs, but the excellent characters and the gobsmacking quality of the show's craft (acting, writing, directing, younameit) has kept me around for the season. And I'm really glad I managed to keep my embarrassquirming in check for the whole season, since the perfect storm that was last week's episode is surely one of the best comedic half-hours on TV ever.[/hyberbole]

Alan, in the comments of your last Cupid post you suggested that there would be relevant information about network meddling regarding the Cupid remake in this interview. Did I misread that, or did you decide to hold that over for another post?

Read between the lines in the quote about Rob's relationship with Starz.

"Read between the lines in the quote about Rob's relationship with Starz."Yeah, I guess that probably does say it all, doesn't it?

Ah, well, I guess all that's left to do is wonder what might have happened if Starz had produced Cupid, or if Party Down had ended up at the mercy of meddling ABC execs. Probably less, and more, wacky music, respectively.

As to Party Down, what a wonderful finale to a truly impressive debut season. The best thing I can say is that it leaves me really excited about seeing a new season. I wonder if they'll be asked to do a longer season two? It seems to be the kind of show that could easily accommodate a longer run without running out of steam, and I'd love to see them do a good 13 if not 22 next time.

Also, whilst Jennifer Coolidge was an okay substitute for Jane Lynch (moreso last week), I really hope that Jane will be back for season two. The unique combination of reckless immaturity with oblivious naivete worked beautifully, and she provided what were probably my two favorite memories of the entire season, first when she didn't know what ecstasy was (in the porn episode) and then later reveling in Taylor Stiltskin's bad sweet sixteen behavior.

It's a wonderful series, and if you're reading this Rob Thomas, I'm sorry about Cupid, but thank you so much for Party Down!

I liked the two episodes I watched online but do not have Starz. It's very frustrating. I wish they would put the other episodes online or on Hulu or iTunes, because this is definitely something I would watch regularly.

Paul, I love me some Emmy talk, so I'll bite.

Acting choices all seem fine, although I would definitely have Marino use the High School reunion tape - the conservative episode felt too generic, the High School one is just so wonderfully personal in its tragic fall that it's hard not to empathize with the guy.

As for series, I can't imagine a scenario where I could justify leaving Celebrate Ricky Sargulesh off the episode submissions. Yes, it's the most broad comedy the show has ever done, but it so embodies the basic premise of the series (actors working cater waiter jobs) and the way they are both famous and clearly not famous, all topped off by Weber's stunning performance.

In reality, the show's only real Emmy shot exists in the writing/guest categories, with a long shot on Lynch - unless Starz pulls a Showtime-esque move and sends DVDs to academy members (unlikely for a non-HBO/Showtime cable network in this economic climate) I don't think the show itself is going to make its way onto that list. And even then, its guest stars are a bit too young for categories that are always dominated by geriatrics.

All of which to say that Party Down shall become the new critical "The Emmys are irrelevant because they ignored this show for Entourage" series, at least for me.

I always get the warm and fuzzies when a show lives up to my own hype. The only aspect that struck me as a bit odd was Ken Marino; I think they originally had him hem a bit too close to the Michael Scott line of comedy. Somehow though, I really truly gave a damn for his triumph at the end of this episode. It's been an amazing, hilarious and downright disturbing ride to the top.

I also think that there's something magical about channels like Starz and AMC becoming a refuge for creators who are too creative to actually work well with the "mainstream" networks.

Myles,

I know Marino should submit the penultimate episode, but he was really, really funny in CCCUC, especially when he tried to make amends for destroying the old American flag they had by "distressing" another one. The scene where everybody looked at him as the flag went up in flames was LMFAO funny. I just wanted to point out that that was his funniest episode out of many.

I just watched the finale, and holy crap, was Kristen Bell (and George Takei, which was a really nice surprise for me!) a fun guest star. The show has such a great way of using their guest stars to the fullest without it being overdone or annoying.

Great interview! I look forward to next season, and am crossing my fingers that they can all work it out so Lynch (and everyone else in the main cast) can stay in the next season as well. (I kind of miss not having Constance around in the finale, even though Coolidge did a pretty good job (though somewhat one note)).

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