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For you. olelo.org 590191_MilestoneAds_2.indd 2 12/27/19 5:22 PM ON THE COVER | ZOEY’S EXTRAORDINARY PLAYLIST A penny for your songs ‘Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist’ ...,” narrates the first trailer for the show, “... her new ability, when she witnesses an elabo- what she got, was so much more.” rate, fully choreographed performance of DJ premieres on NBC In an event not unlike your standard super- Khaled’s “All I Do is Win,” but Mo only sees “a hero origin story, an MRI scan gone wrong bunch of mostly white people drinking over- By Sachi Kameishi leaves Zoey with the ability to access people’s priced coffee.” TV Media innermost thoughts and feelings. It’s like she It’s a fun premise for a show, one that in- becomes a mind reader overnight, her desire dulges the typical musical’s over-the-top, per- f you’d told me a few years ago that musicals to fully understand what people want from formative nature as much as it subverts what would be this culturally relevant in 2020, I her seemingly fulfilled. And it doesn’t end the genre tends to be. And the rest of the cast Iwould have been skeptical. For a while, tastes there — remember, we’re playing with musi- is nothing to sneeze at, either — John Clarence had changed — movies like “My Fair Lady” cal rules here, there’s a campy twist to all of Stewart (“Luke Cage”), Lauren Graham (1964) and “West Side Story” (1961) won Os- this. “People are singing to me,” Zoey explains. (“Gilmore Girls”), Mary Steenburgen (“The Last cars in the ‘60s, but it’s been many years since “Almost as if they were singing what they were Man on Earth”) and Peter Gallagher (“The O.C.”). a musical has been taken quite that seriously. thinking out loud.” Creator and showrunner Austin Winsberg, Today, though, musicals are popular enough One second, Zoey’s having a regular con- whose diverse credits working on melodramas to get both Academy Award nominations and versation with her best friend, Max, played by such as “Gossip Girl” and the “The Sound of prime-time network slots. Skylar Astin (“Pitch Perfect,” 2012). Next thing Music Live!” sum up the unique tone of his new The musical has come a long way. Critically she knows, he’s singing and dancing to the creation perfectly, has come up with a concept acclaimed movies like “La, La, Land” (2017), Jonas Brothers’ groovy hit “Sucker,” making his that I’ve never seen before: a musical that, shows like “Glee” and “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” and secret feelings for her abundantly clear. In an- through its lead, breaks its own fourth wall. a stream of live-action Disney remakes have other scene from the musical dramedy, Zoey’s It’s pretty remarkable when you think about it, brought the genre back into the limelight, and at a café with her neighbor Mo given that one of the biggest gripes surround- its rebirth spans film, television, theater and (Alex Newell, ing the genre is the amount of suspension of podcasting. NBC is set to offer its own addition “Glee”), disbelief required from the audience. to the trend with its brand-new musical dram- trying How do you make people buy into the emo- edy “Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist,” premiering to come tional life of characters who transition from Tuesday, Jan. 7. to terms dialogue to song as though it were nothing? Starring Jane Levy (“Suburgatory”) as the with Taking it at face value, people singing and titular character, the show centers on the life dancing out of nowhere is very off- of Zoey Clarke, a computer programmer putting and absurd, right? Well, “Zoey’s whose extremely brainy, rigid nature of- Extraordinary Playlist” kind of agrees, ten gets in the way of her ability to make but it seems to have found its own solu- an impression on the people around tion to the problem. Instead of expect- her. “All Zoey wanted was a connection ing the viewer to accept the musical numbers without question, why not have Skylar Astin and John Clarence Stewart the lead character find the singing out of in “Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist” place, too? 2 STAR CHANNELS JANUARy 5 - 11, 2020 BEST BETS Sunday Tuesday Thursday God Friended Me FBI: Most Wanted Deputy KGMB 7 p.m. KGMB 9 p.m. KHON 8 p.m. Miles (Brandon Micheal Hall) realizes that Seasoned Fugitive Task Force agent Jess Bill (Stephen Dorff) is still having difficulties the God account’s friend suggestions are LaCroix (Julian McMahon) leads an under- with the rules and responsibilities of being all clients of the same company, giving him a cover unit that is always in the field, tracking sheriff in this new episode. When a criminal who he has a personal history with shows clue as to who is behind it all in this new epi- down the elite criminals on the FBI’s most wanted list in this new spinoff series. 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