“Come one come all to a beautiful show. It’s going to be awesome
and…some other stuff,” announces Charlie (Charlie Day) about his
musical, The Nightman Cometh. But that’s the fourth season
too—awesome plagued with just some other stuff. Highlights involve
the hilarious pairing of Charlie and Sweet Dee (as cannibals, for
example), but episodes suffer from frequent uninteresting subplots.
Those moments aside, it’s still the funniest comedy on TV. The musical
episode proves it—the bonus of a live production of the episode (plus
new songs!) recorded at The Troubadour in Hollywood make the set a
must-own.
This article appears in Oct 15-21, 2009.