

mozart in the jungle Sarah Shatz / Sarah Shatz / Dudamel made a guest appearance in season two. The set-up is clearly inspired by the Los Angeles Philharmonic hiring Venezuelan hotshot Gustavo Dudamel a few years ago. With conductor Thomas Pembridge (Malcolm McDowell) moving to emeritus status, the orchestra’s president, Gloria Windsor (Bernadette Peters), hires a Mexican hotshot named Rodrigo de Souza (Gael García Bernal). Like real-life symphonies, the New York is facing financial challenges and the challenge of how to get younger butts into seats. The series was created by Alex Timbers and cousins Roman Coppola and Jason Schwartzman, and is based on the memoir by oboist Blair Tindall.

16, has succeeded not in spite of its quirky creative choices, but entirely because of them. But the series, whose delicious fourth season is available on Amazon Prime on Friday, Feb.

Not exactly what you’d call the makings of a hit show.
