It’d be too much of a spoiler to give away whether Grant survived the fall off the bridge, but when I said that the quietly Machiavellian producer reminded me of Trump advisor Steve Bannon, Daly agreed with that assessment. He feels the hand of God behind him at all times, and that’s obviously a dangerous conviction.” In Forrest’s mind, “a miracle has spared him to go on doing this. “Now it’s a religious mission,” Daly says. Having survived the harrowing yet hysterical events of the end of Season Two - when Forrest and his evil producer Grant (James Urbaniak) fell off a bridge during a confrontation - in the very dark and funny new episodes, the TV host is more persistent and blinkered than ever. says to him, ‘I’m starting to think nothing will ever turn out well for you.’ And his response is, ‘What are you talking about? Like that’s an insane thing to say,” Daly says. “There is a moment - I think it’s in the sixth episode of the first season - where A.J. But he doesn’t seem to ever realize that that’s going to happen, or the extent to which it has happened.”įorrest’s hapless and unfounded optimism has remained constant through “Review’s” three seasons, which have taken on the quality of tragedy even as they become funnier and funnier. One way or another, either through his own incompetence or just the cruelty of the world, he’s going to end up being laid low by everything he takes on. “One thing that always makes me laugh about Forrest is that so often, he will get an assignment and receive it as good news and head out into the world like, ‘This is finally going to be the one that ends up being a totally positive experience!’ And it never seems to dawn on him that that doesn’t happen. But Forrest, who is played by “Review” creator Andy Daly, and who reviews experiences suggested by his viewers, has kept re-committing to the same misguided beliefs that have gotten him into trouble since the hilariously deft show began.įorrest’s obliviousness is “a form of optimism,” according to Daly. One principle of fictional storytelling is that characters generally should exhibit some kind of growth or evolution during the course of the tale in question.
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