‘Long Story Short’ Review: Raphael Bob-Waksberg’s ‘BoJack Horseman’ Follow-Up Is a Funny, Heartfelt Exploration of Family, Memory and Jewishness

‘Long Story Short’ Review: Raphael Bob-Waksberg’s ‘BoJack Horseman’ Follow-Up Is a Funny, Heartfelt Exploration of Family, Memory and Jewishness

Television has long had a Jewish mother problem. From The Goldbergs (Gertrude Berg’s medium-spanning landmark) to The Goldbergs (Adam F. Goldberg’s barely Jewish ABC hit), TV’s Jewish characters have too often seemed to emerge from the same mother — and I’m not talking about the mystical concept of the shekhinah, or the divine feminine. Long…

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‘Long Story Short’ Stars on Doing a Jewish Family Comedy in 2025: “There’s Going to Be Vitriol”

‘Long Story Short’ Stars on Doing a Jewish Family Comedy in 2025: “There’s Going to Be Vitriol”

Five years after the end of Bojack Horseman, creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg is back with Long Story Short, an animated, decade-spanning comedy centered on a dysfunctional Jewish family. Lisa Edelstein, Paul Reiser, Ben Feldman, Abbi Jacobson, Max Greenfield, Angelique Cabral and Nicole Byer make up the voice cast, and at the show’s Los Angeles premiere on Monday,…

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#’The Neighborhood’ star Marcel Spears on Season 3

#’The Neighborhood’ star Marcel Spears on Season 3

“#’The Neighborhood’ star Marcel Spears on Season 3” Hollywood newcomer Marcel Spears is a standout on the CBS sitcom “The Neighborhood.” Now in its third season (premiering Monday at 8 p.m.), series centers around a white Midwestern family — led by patriarch Dave Johnson (Max Greenfield, “New Girl”) — as they adjust to moving into…

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