David Farnor | On 03, Aug 2019

Amazon’s Forever will not return for Season 2, the online giant has confirmed.

The show, which is created by Parks and Recreation’s Alan Yang and Matt Hubbard, stars Maya Rudolph and Fred Armisen as married couple June and Oscar. The pair live a comfortable but predictable life in suburban Riverside, California. For 12 years, they’ve had the same conversations, eaten the same meals and taken pleasant holidays at the same rented lake house. But after June talks Oscar into shaking things up with a ski trip, they find themselves in completely unfamiliar territory.

“A hilarious, heartfelt study of love, commitment and change, Forever is a quietly profound triumph,” we wrote in our review of Season 1. “It’s a show that sneaks up on you, and is disarming enough for you to let it: it’s subtly jaw-dropping and exquisitely moving television, the kind of programme that makes you gasp in shock and sigh in contentment, and that’s just in the opening few episodes. Hidden gems don’t come more hidden or gemmy than this.”

Unfortunately, the show turned out to be too hidden, with no Emmys nominations aimed its way. As a result, Amazon has decided not to progress with any further seasons of the show, with Forever joining a raft of series axed by Amazon, including Lore, Patriot, Too Old to Die Young and The Romanoffs. While the decision (confirmed along the others at Amazon’s TCA press tour) marks the shift of Amazon’s focus towards larger fare, with a series based on The Lord of the Rings in the works, as well actioner Jack Ryan and fantasy epics Wheel of Time and Carnival Row.

On the plus side, Forever is also a show that works well as a standalone, finding its own unique, self-contained point at which to end.
 

Forever is available to watch online on Amazon Prime Video as part of a Prime membership or a £5.99 monthly subscription.

 

First look: Maya Rudolph stars in Amazon’s Forever

3rd August 2018

Amazon has unveiled its first trailer for new comedy series Forever.

The show, which is created by Parks and Recreation’s Alan Yang and Matt Hubbard, stars Maya Rudolph and Fred Armisen as married couple June and Oscar. The pair live a comfortable but predictable life in suburban Riverside, California. For 12 years, they’ve had the same conversations, eaten the same meals and taken pleasant holidays at the same rented lake house. But after June talks Oscar into shaking things up with a ski trip, they find themselves in completely unfamiliar territory.

Forever is described by Amazon as “an utterly original, insightful and poignant comedy about love, commitment and marriage” – and now, we have our first look at what that entails. The series co-stars Catherine Keener, Noah Robbins and Kym Whitley, with Tim Sarkes and Dave Becky serving as exec producers alongside Yang, Hubbard, Rudolph and Armisen.

The series premieres on Amazon Prime Video on Friday 14th September. Here’s a trailer:

 

Catherine Keener joins Maya Rudolph’s Amazon comedy

4th December 2017

Catherine Keener has signed on to star in Maya Rudolph’s Amazon comedy series.

The project was announced earlier this year, a part of a wave of new commissions from Amazon Studios. The comedy is co-exec-produced by Rudolph and fellow Saturday Night Live veteran Fred Armisen and is written and created by Alan Yang (co-creator of Master of None) and Matt Hubbard. Dave Becky and Tim Sarkes will also exec-produce, alongside Yang and Hubbard.

Not much is known about the untitled show, although Deadline reports that Armisen and Rudolph will play a married couple in Southern California. Now, they’ve got an Oscar nominee on their doorstep, with Keener expected to play a mysterious new neighbour who moves in next door. The casting arrives hot on the heels of Keener’s role in the hugely acclaimed Get Out and ahead of her next starring role in the upcoming Sicario sequel, Soldado.

The single-camera comedy was given a straight-to-series order by Amazon Studios and will likely premiere next year. For more on what’s coming soon to Amazon Prime Video, click here.

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