Mozart in the Jungle is a TV show. A TV show set in modern day New York. A TV show with music as its theme. It has the office set up of revolving around
the lives of a group of people working in a particular organization. All conventional cliches. Together, you might assume the combined cliches
may offer a few opportunities for brief moments of novelty.
You couldn't be further away from the facts. The organization involved in this situation-based comedy, is the New York Philharmonic orchestra.
The music is pure classical music.
The novelty of this being one of those new-fangled instant steaming
binge watching shows combined with the aforementioned idiosyncrasies alone
would make it a pedigree watch to boast and brag about, even if you secretly
weren't altogether impressed by it.
But the show is brilliantly scripted. With wonderful performances, led by Gail
Garcia Bernal as Rodrigo, the eccentric, novelty itemized new conductor. The sitcom delves into the lives, passions
and music of these people, also giving occasional moving-spotlight like focus
on the broader alternative performance art culture that is now a core of New
York’s soul.
All in all, it’s a well-acted, well-scripted incredibly
funny show (they do not overuse or play fast and use with the musical
instrument based sex metaphors. I am
awaiting some musician/performance artist type and political inclination based
allegories though). And it has one of
the most amazing score you will witness in a TV show.
