{"id":16040,"date":"2021-12-13T23:18:41","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T23:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blue-subtitle.com\/blog\/?p=16040"},"modified":"2021-12-13T23:18:41","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T23:18:41","slug":"ana-gasteyer-gets-a-promising-comedy-vehicle-in-american-auto-a-show-still-finding-its-voice-tv-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blue-subtitle.com\/blog\/ana-gasteyer-gets-a-promising-comedy-vehicle-in-american-auto-a-show-still-finding-its-voice-tv-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Ana Gasteyer Gets a Promising Comedy Vehicle in \u2018American Auto,\u2019 a Show Still Finding Its Voice: TV Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ana Gasteyer \u2014 a shrewd, funny comedian adept at puncturing her characters\u2019 pretensions \u2014 has long deserved a showcase. \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d contemporaries of hers including Maya Rudolph and Molly Shannon have recently had strong and striking second acts on TV, and Gasteyer\u2019s turn comes in the form of \u201cAmerican Auto,\u201d a sitcom about a car company and its self-assured new CEO.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And it\u2019s Gasteyer who represents the most compelling reason to watch this show, which over its first two episodes is in the process of finding its voice. Created by \u201cSuperstore\u2019s\u201d Justin Spitzer, \u201cAmerican Auto\u201d most keenly gives the sense of a network attempt to channel the scabrousness of \u201cVeep\u201d or \u201cSuccession.\u201d Like those shows, this NBC series features a bunch of functionaries striving for the approval of a capricious and often short-sighted leader. But the early going suggests a show that is still figuring out what it wants to say.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div id=\"adm-inline-article-ad-1\" class=\"admz\">\n<div class=\"adma boomerang\" data-device=\"Desktop\" data-width=\"300\">\n<div class=\"pmc-adm-boomerang-pub-div ad-text\">\n<div id=\"gpt-variety-article-mid-article-uid0\" class=\"adw-300 adh-250\" data-is-adhesion-ad=\"\" data-google-query-id=\"CIbuysL04fQCFcH1dwodOREPWQ\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Katherine Hastings, played by Gasteyer, has entered the auto industry from pharmaceuticals, and doesn\u2019t quite realize how much she doesn\u2019t know. Her oafishness takes a different form from, say, Michael Scott\u2019s; she has the smooth assurance of an exec who is accustomed to being accommodated. A running joke involves Katherine\u2019s paranoia that two of her employees (Tye White and Harriet Dyer) are secretly having sex in the office, which Gasteyer carries across with a sly wit even as the material mistakes crassness for real wit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Nailing the tone is an issue for \u201cAmerican Auto,\u201d whose first two episodes center stories that move into real discomfort \u2014 for instance, the company trying to figure out how to respond to a serial murderer driving victims around in one of their cars. The show hasn\u2019t quite earned our trust enough to push this far into the extreme: We\u2019re still learning who the characters are as we see them respond humorously to violent crime.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The ensemble is strong \u2014 White and Dyer are appealing, and Michael B. Washington\u2019s measured delivery is always a treat. And if the show\u2019s attempts to exhibit real edge may make viewers cringe, Gasteyer provides a strong reason to keep watching.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>\u201cAmerican Auto\u2019s\u201d first two episodes get a preview airing Monday, Dec. 13, at 10 p.m. ET\/PT before the show\u2019s launch Tuesday, Jan. 4.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-tags \/\/ a-children-icon-bullet lrv-u-font-family-primary u-letter-spacing-012 lrv-u-line-height-large lrv-u-color-brand-primary\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Source:variety<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ana Gasteyer \u2014 a shrewd, funny comedian adept at puncturing her characters\u2019 pretensions \u2014 has long deserved a showcase. \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d contemporaries of hers including Maya Rudolph and Molly Shannon have recently had strong and striking second acts on TV, and Gasteyer\u2019s turn comes in the form of \u201cAmerican Auto,\u201d a sitcom about a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[18581,18582,18584,18583],"class_list":["post-16040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-subtitles","tag-ana-gasteyer-gets-a-promising-comedy","tag-comedy-vehicle-in-american-auto","tag-still-finding-its-voice-tv","tag-voice-tv-review"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.9 - 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