Chris Rock-Led ‘Fargo’ Season 4 Doesn’t Cohere: TV Review

Jill Goldsmith Co-Business Editor“I’m getting some pretty meaty offers in the past few days that I am going to attribute to Loy Cannon,” said Chris Rock, who plays the head of the eponymous Cannon crime syndicate in the fourth season of Fargo.“Yeah, I am ready to do more stuff like this. More meaty roles,” the standup comic-actor-director announced at the New Yorker Festival in a Tuesday night virtual session.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticTwo years ago, Netflix’s “The Haunting of Hill House” was the most pleasant of surprises — though perhaps “pleasant” is not the word. The series was often terrifying, thanks in part to strong pacing, performances that worked across the board and a willingness to wear an unusual ambition and intellect proudly.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticToo often, period pieces about the making of America treat the past with undue dignity, turning the raucousness and rambunctiousness of a two-and-a-quarter-century pageant of personalities into a chamber piece. American history is serious, sure, but it’s also giddy and strange, and too few entertainments treat it that way.

Chris Rock had quite the presidential debate watch party.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticParis has long been the staging ground for a particular sort of American fantasy, one that tends to bring the characteristics of Americans into sharp relief. In the final episodes of “Sex and the City,” to cite one example, Carrie Bradshaw attempts a warm embrace of all the City of Light has to offer, but finds that she may in fact be too warm, that the cool briskness of Paris is making her someone she does not recognize.

Chris Rock and actress Carmen Ejogo were photographed out together and they looked very cozy together during their dinner!

funny drama! Chris Rock, Steve Carell, Kate McKinnon and several of their fellow comedians have more than proved they are cut out for serious roles.Actors who are known for their humor often get typecast into similar parts or willingly pursue the funniest projects in the business, but some step outside their comfort zones and show fans what they are made of.Rock followed in the footsteps of Billy Bob Thornton, Ewan McGregor and Kirsten Dunst when he agreed to star in season 4 of Fargo as crime

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticAn Israeli-produced series debuting on Apple TV Plus, “Tehran” is a show that looks at Iran through an alternately adversarial and nostalgic lens.

Comedian Chris Rock will host the season premiere of Saturday Night Live, network NBC has announced.

Thursday afternoon tweet with a picture of sticky notes labeled “OCT 3,” “Chris Rock” and “Megan Thee Stallion.”The gig marks the former cast member’s third time hosting “SNL” — he previously in 1996 and 2014 — and Megan’s first-ever appearance on the sketch show.

will soon be live from New York once again!The legendary sketch show announced the lineup for its season 46 premiere on Thursday.

In addition to Jim Carrey signing on to play former Vice President and current Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, “SNL” is adding three cast members this year: Lauren Holt, Punkie Johnson and Andrew Dismukes. As previously announced, the entire Season 45 “SNL” cast is set to return for Season 46.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorChris Rock will host the first show of the 46th season of “Saturday Night Live” on October 3,  helping the venerable late-night mainstay get back to studio production as all TV programs grapple with the conditions of the coronavirus pandemic.This will mark Rock’s third appearance as host.Megan Thee Stallion will make her debut as an “SNL” musical guest.“SNL” will produce a live broadcast.

Global’s “Saturday Night Live” is returning home to 30 Rock.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic“The Walking Dead” is edging up, this October, to its tenth anniversary on the air. That decade of ratings dominance has seen our own world grow nihilistic enough to make the series feel more tonally appropriate to the mood of the moment.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticOpening this year’s Emmy Awards, host Jimmy Kimmel told the audience — the one at home, given that there was no one sitting before him in the stands of the Staples Center — that there were a great many moving parts in piecing together the ceremony. He asked, mordantly, “What could possibly go right?”It turns out: Quite a bit.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticIt’s perhaps surprising Kim Cattrall hadn’t yet headlined a soap opera. As Samantha Jones on “Sex and the City,” her slyness and way with a pun came to be revealed as elegant concealments of the character’s deep need.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticThe best talk show hosts are made into stars by the medium. To wit: Rosie O’Donnell was a well-known comic and actor but hardly the dynamo she eventually became when she began her daily show.

Fargo season four is the best part he’s ever had.The comedian, who plays mob boss Loy Cannon in the FX series, sang the praises of Noah Hawley’s Coen Brothers spin-off show in conversation with The Hollywood Reporter.“This is the best part I’ve ever had,” Rock said. “Sometimes you get a great love and you’re just not ready for it,” he continued, nodding to one of his early roles opposite Morgan Freeman in Nurse Betty.“Great part, and I wasn’t fucking ready. Now, Don Cheadle would’ve been.