<i>Superior Donuts</i> Tries to Update an Old Classic
The new CBS multi-camera sitcom, based on a Tracy Letts play, is stodgy in format but has moments of freshness.
by Sophie Gilbert
Feb 02, 2017
3 minutes
It’s not overstating things to say that is definitively the only Tracy Letts play that could ever be reworked as a multi-camera sitcom. (Although it’s fun to fantasize about what, say, Marti Noxon or Lisa Hanawalt might do with ). When it premiered in 2008, the same year Letts won a Pulitzer and a Tony for , was something of a surprise: a gentle, odd-couple drama about a crunchy old Chicagoan running his family-founded doughnut store and have interpreted the play as a love letter to the Norman Lear comedies of the 1970s. So CBS’s new half-hour sitcom feels like an organic development, if not an entirely fresh one.
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