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Tony Cavalero, previously Keefe on The Righteous Gemstones, has been promoting his next big project, the CBS/Paramount Plus workplace comedy DMV. (The Department of Motor Vehicles.)
I'm not sure:
1. Do I really want to watch 23 minutes of endless lines, demands for obscure documents, and nonsensical rules that change from moment to moment?
2. Keefe was an anomaly. Otherwise Tony has played only excessively hetero-horny characters. I don't even know if he's bisexual in real life, or was pretending to fuel viewer speculation about Keefe (some viewers weren't convinced, even after he married Kelvin). So I doubt that his character will be gay.
But I'll give it a try. Season 1, Episode 1.
Scene 1: Horror-inducing establishing shot at the DMV. The main cast give driving tests.
Maxime LeFebre-Martel is an IT support technician from Gatineau, Quebec. He has no previous acting credits.
Old Guy Gregg (Tim Meadows) tests a hoarder with all of her possessions in the back seat, including a ferret who squirts him.
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Hudson Greenough has a degree in Classics from the University of Toronto, and works as a teacher during the school year and an archaeologist during the summer. He has five acting credits on the IMDB, including The Hardy Boys, Deadly Inferno, and Lady Ada's Secret Society.
Scene 2: Colette enters the DVM and thinks the new guy, Hot Noa (Alex Tarrant), is waving at her. He's not. She is embarrassed.
Manager Barbara calls the three driving testers to her cubicle. The good news: She has just been made manager. The bad news: Today consultants are coming to...um...observe their branch because they are doing such a good job.
Scene 3: The consultants arrive, the middle-aged Dan (Gerry Dee) and a woman named Kshitija. Anti-Indian joke about her name being hard to pronounce.
Big reveal - they're not observing because this branch is so competent. They're going to choose one of the four Hollywood DMVs to fire all the workers and go automated. Couldn't you just fire the incompetent ones and transfer the others to another branch?
Uh-oh, the elderly lady who gets tested all the time arrives. The others tell Vic that it's his turn to deal with her, but he complains that they should be assigned test subjects based on their strengths: for instance, he'll take the white entitled, and any teens with hot moms. Heterosexual identity established at Minute 6.2. That leaves Gregg and Noa.
Moving on, the guys suggest that Colette make a move on her crush, Hot Noa, before the Hot Girl gets her claws into him.
Scene 4: Colette takes the old lady on her driving test. She zooms through cones and into cutouts of people, whil the consultants watch in horror.
Cut to Hetero-Horny Vic in the break room, crushing potato chips onto his lunch sub (actually Old Guy Gregg's, stolen from the refrigerator). He suggests to Mean Girl, the DMV's photographer, that if they're both single at age 40, they get married. Mean Girl is shocked: "Aren't you like 55?"
Manager Barbara continues to lie that the consultants are observing because they're the best.
More after the break
Scene 5: Back from dealing with the old lady, Colette changes the "days since a tester was almost killed" board to "1." Since she could die at any moment, she decides to make a move on Hot Noa.
The guys aren't sure she'll be successful. She hasn't had a second date since 2023.
"You have no idea how hard it is to be a single woman in her 30s," she complains.
"Harder than being a black man in his 60s?" Gregg asks. Aww -- I'd date you, buddy.
Or we could just have a hookup.
Colette heads for Hot Noa's desk, but the Hot Girl beats her to it, so she abandons the plan.
Scene 6: The consultants are interviewing Mean Girl. "What do you like best about working here?"
"The constant rush of superiority."
Meanwhile, Colette tries to pick up Hot Noa again, while the guys watch and comment. Her opening is about adopting the dog she's been fostering, but she accidentally shows him a picture of her toe instead.
Noa is a dog fan. He shows a picture of his recently deceased dog, Marvin Gray, walking on the beach -- shirtless Noa!
Uh-oh, she's been Instagram-stalking him, and she knows too much, freaking him out. Plus he notices a tampon stuck to her skirt.
"Um...welcome to the team, and it's a shame we can never speak again. Bye!"
Scene 7: The humiliated Colette tracks down Manager Barbara in the restroom and claims to be sick, so she has to go home early. But how can she get out withour running into Noa?
Meanwhile, the consultants interview Old Guy Gregg. He complains about the state spending money on expensive consultants to find out the problem, which is that they don't have enough money.
Next they interview Hetero-Horny Vic. He tells the female consultant, "You are too attractive to work in consulting." She tells him that's inappropriate, so he backtracks: "You're both too attractive to work in consulting." Not bisexual, just trying to be inclusive. His complaint: he requested time off because his mama died, and it was denied -- twice.
Finally, Manager Barbara: "What is the average customer wait time?" In Hollywood? Seven hours if you made an appointment, three days if you didn't.
Scene 8: Trapped in the restroom, Colette tries to climb through the window, and gets stuck. Hot Girl finds her and yells "We've got a jumper!"
Everyone rushes into the restroom to talk Colette down. They discover that the consultants' real purpose: to decide whether to fire them all.
Hetero-Horny Vic: "I can't lose my job!"
Mean Girl: "I can't lose my benefits!"
Old Guy Gregg: "I can't be home with Tanya all day. We only have a successful marriage if we barely see each other!" Heterosexual identity established at Minute 22, and weren't you just complaining about being single?
Scene 9: Hot Noa goes out to the back and disentangles Colette from the window. Their lanyards get stuck. "Hey, did you want to..." he begins, and Colette braces herself to be asked out. "....get a tetanus shot?" Har-har.
Suddenly the police and fire trucks appear.
Manager Barbara can't wait for tomorrow, when things will be back to normal. Ulp, the consultants tell her that they'll be observing for a year. To decide whether to close the office? A week should be plenty.
Scene 10: The trio is leaving the empty DMV. The obnoxious guy from before appears with his birth certificate, but they're closed. He keeps banging and threatening. They laugh at him.
Left: Mark Feuerstein with David Walton in 9jkl (that's the unfortunate title of the sitcom). Don't get excited, they're playing brothers.
Vic is going to the bar to help Manager Barbara celebrate her promotion, and asks his friends to come along.
No, Gregg's wife wants to talk about couple's counseling.
No, Colette's too humiliated to celebrate.
Then suddenly Noa appears and asks if she's going. Now she wants to. Techncally Noa's heterosexual identity hasn't been established, but the way he's gazing at Colette like she's a pork chop, I'm sure he's straight.
The end.
Beefcake: Shirtless Noa in the photo on his phone.
Heterosexism: The episode is about Colette's attempt to ask Noa out. Vic's every third line is about being heterosexual. Gregg hates his wife.
Gay Characters: Molly Kearney is nonbinary in real life, so maybe Manager Barbara is gay?
My Grade: Very predictable, run-of-the-mill situations, lots of missed opportunities for jokes: maybe Colette continues to describe her dog while Noa is looking at the toe photo, or she falls into the dumpster and comes out with a banana peel stuck to her skirt, which Noa tries to remove...there are many much better workplace sitcoms out there. I suggest The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Taxi, Just Shoot Me (left), Throb, Reno 9-1-1, Abbott Elementary, and Corner Gas.
And Tony is once again playing a hetero-horny sleazoid. Remember Kelvin and Keefe's wedding? C-
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