As expected, Jack and I loved this comedy about an inexperienced, determined writer who lands a job on a talk show, helping to save it from cancellation.
Mindy Kaling (last blogged for acting in Ocean's Eight) makes her feature writing debut after penning dozens of TV shows and one TV movie, so it's no surprise that she shines in the role she created for herself, the smart, good-natured, and slightly naive Molly. As Katherine, the prickly host of the titular show, Emma Thompson (most recently in these pages for A Walk in the Woods) is wonderful, as always. And guess what? Kaling wrote the role of Katherine specifically for Thompson as well.
There are a bunch of great supporting actors, too numerous to mention.
Nisha Ganatra (new to me after directing a bunch of TV episodes and a few movies) is, like Kaling, a North American-born woman of Asian Indian descent, and she keeps the story moving.
Composer Lesley Barber's (last blogged for Manchester by the Sea) score can be streamed on YouTube and Apple Music.
Rotten Tomatoes' critics and audiences must have been too sleepy to stay up for Late Night, averaging 79 and 78%, respectively. But we liked it a whole lot.
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