The most underrated Apple TV show just got a second season
Schmigadoon! is getting a second season on Apple TV Plus
Getting invested in a new streaming series is a bit of a gamble. If you’re in the minority of people who get invested, or if it disappoints the powers that be for other reasons, then in all likelihood it’ll get axed before there’s a happy resolution. By our count, the number of Netflix cancellations in the first six months of 2022 has already reached double figures.
So it’s worth celebrating when a new show performs well enough to get a second season, and the latest to pass this modest landmark is Apple TV Plus’ Schmigadoon!
Schmigadoon! — a six-episode parody of 1940s musicals starring Keegan-Michael Key and Cecily Strong — will return for a second season, Apple has confirmed. But we won’t be getting more songs in the vein of Lovers’ Spat and Corn Puddin’ with the series instead relocating to the town of Schmicago for its take on musicals of the 1960s and 70s. Think Chicago, Grease, West Side Story and Fiddler on the Roof.
As is only sensible for streaming series in the current trigger-happy cancellation climate, Schmigadoon!’s first season ended ambiguously with a resolution to Melissa and Josh’s relationship problems, but with the hint that the world has more to offer. The screen faded to black before the couple could cross the bridge back to New York City, where people seldom spontaneously break into song, no matter how happy.
“I think it was by design that we don’t cross the bridge,” Key told TVLine last year. “We get a palpable ending, which is to say [Melissa and Josh] have learned the lesson that Schmigadoon! has presented to them, but there is more to this place that we haven’t explored. I know for a fact that Cinco has worked out a Season 2 in his mind, if we’re lucky enough to get a pick-up.”
For the second season, Key and Strong will be joined by Tituss Burgess from Unbreakable Kimmy Schmitdt and The Gilded Age star Patrick Page.
Meanwhile, the likes of Ariana DeBose, Dove Cameron, Jaime Camil, Krisin Chenoweth, Alan Cumming, Ann Harada, Jane Krakowski, Martin Short and Aaron Tveit will all be returning, but it’s seemingly the end of the line for Fred Armisen and Liam Quiring-Nkindi who aren’t listed as appearing.
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Schmigadoon! features prominently on our list of the best Apple TV Plus shows you watch today, so it’s great news that it has performed well enough to get a second season. No release date was listed, but we’d be surprised if it wasn’t pencilled in for a 2023 debut.
Freelance contributor Alan has been writing about tech for over a decade, covering phones, drones and everything in between. Previously Deputy Editor of tech site Alphr, his words are found all over the web and in the occasional magazine too. When not weighing up the pros and cons of the latest smartwatch, you'll probably find him tackling his ever-growing games backlog. Or, more likely, playing Spelunky for the millionth time.
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mjzimmer88 Schmigadoon was an amazing premise for a show, with the absolute WORST execution from the writers. It was great for most of the first episode, and every single episode thereafter was utterly PAINFUL to endure.Reply
Making a second season of this show is a huge mistake. Take the highlights -- the actors in this show were fantastic -- and put them all in an entirely new show instead.
You couldn't pay me to watch another episode of this. I made an account here just to say this show wasn't "underrated". It was rated quite low, and somehow was still overrated.