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Steve Carell (“The Office”) stars as an author who accepts a job at the college where his daughter (Charly Clive, “The Lazarus Project”) works in “Rooster,” premiering Sunday, March 8, on HBO and HBO Max. Steve Carell and John C. McGinley in “Rooster”
Cover Story Big dad on campus: Carell ruffles feathers in ‘Rooster’ By Dana Simpson The nuances of father-daughter relationships are hardly uncharted territory, especially in film and television. Films such as “Commando” (1985), “Taken” (2008) and “One Battle After Another” (2025) are all powered by a father’s primal urge to protect his daughter from harm. Meanwhile, television series such as “Full House” and “Veronica Mars” have captured the barrier felt by a father while raising a daughter without a feminine influence. “Rooster” is the newest of these series, hailing from “Scrubs” and “Shrinking” creator Bill Lawrence and his producing partner Matt Tarses (“Bad Monkey”), both of whom have daughters of their own. Premiering on HBO and HBO Max Sunday, March 8, “Rooster” centers around an esteemed author who has been offered a speaking
engagement at the college where his daughter works, all while she is experiencing the worst (and most public) breakup of her life to date. Steve Carell, star of the American comedy series “The Office” and, more recently, the Netflix miniseries “The Four Seasons,” stars as Greg Russo. Greg is the well-known author of a novel series led by a rough-and-tumble protagonist named Rooster, and he has been offered a speaking engagement at Ludlow College, a local liberal arts school. Although flattered to be asked on his own merits, Greg looks upon this opportunity more as a way of reconnecting with his adult daughter, Katie (Charly Clive, “The Lazarus Project”), a professor who recently became the talk of the campus when her marriage quite literally went up in flames. After discovering that her husband Archie (Phil Dunster, “Ted Lasso”), a fellow
In Focus “Imperfect Women” (Apple TV — March 18, Limited Series Premiere) Examining a crime that shatters the lives of three women in a decades-long friendship, this drama series is an unconventional thriller that explores guilt and retribution, love and betrayal, and the compromises we make that irrevocably alter our lives.
professor at the college, was openly cheating on her with a grad student named Sunny (Lauren Tsai, “Legion”), Katie shows her pain and disapproval by burning down his faculty house. Additionally, as the college dean (played by John C. McGinley, “Scrubs”) reminds Greg in the official trailer, “she also assaulted a professor” (you guessed it: Archie). Needless to say, Katie is in quite a bit of trouble and at risk of losing her job. Enter Rooster. Greg offers to stay on as a guest lecturer for the college on the condition that Katie also be allowed to stay as she works through her anger, but what begins as a simple deal to save his daughter’s job becomes a tale of boundary-setting, personal reflection and light, comical role play. Frequently referred to as Rooster by his students, due to his physical likeness to his main character on the book jacket, Greg decides to adopt
some of his leading man’s more spontaneous traits to help smooth things over; it turns out he’ll get somewhat of a new lease on life in the process. “The show itself is at least loosely based on the fact that Matt [Tarses], Steve [Carell] and I all have very tight relationships with our daughters who are young adults,” Lawrence said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. “That relationship’s complicated because you want to protect them, when the truth is that you’re just kind of protecting yourself. We wanted to imagine what it would be like to drop a manof-the-people author into his daughter’s claustrophobic life at a small liberal arts college in the East.” Head back to school (with your dad, maybe?) and learn the power of family ties when “Rooster” premieres Sunday, March 8, on HBO and HBO Max.
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“Invincible” - Season 4 (Prime Video — March 18, Season Premiere) While the world recovers from catastrophe in this new season, a changed Mark (Steven Yeun) fights to protect his home and the people he loves, setting him on a collision course with a threat that could alter the fate of humanity forever. Sandra Oh, J.K. Simmons, Jason Mantzoukas, Zazie Beetz, Grey DeLisle, Zachary Quinto and Chris Diamantopoulos also voice star.