Nuked Mike Myers is making a return to comedy in a new, six-episode Netflix show called the pentaverate. He’s playing eight different characters in the six-episode show.
The show centers on a shadowy, and possibly world-controlling, secret society called the pentaverate. It was started by five people who were labeled as heretics after discovering that the black plague was caused by fleas and rats. It also stars Ken jeong, keegan-michael key, and Jennifer Saunders.
The concept for the show comes from a joke in another movie staring Myers. You can watch that scene below (do n’t worry, there are no axe murders in it – just colonel Sanders slander).
Mike Myers wrote the love guru and played multiple characters in the movie. This is the first big thing we’ve seen written by him since 2008. He’s acted in a few movies since then, like Inglourious Basterds and 2018’s bohemian Rhapsody and terminal.
Netflix has been on a streak making general-interest comedy content with big names. Last week’s big premiere the Adam project starring Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Garner, and Ryan Reynolds.
Netflix ordered four Adam Sandler movies in 2014. Then swore that they were so popular it had to order four more. Netflix is following a similar playbook of getting comedy stars from the 90s and early 2000s to make content following the style of their old hits.
