Documentary Now!'s "Original Cast Album: Co-op" is "Mulaney to the max"

The A.V. Club

John Mulaney's Documentary Now! episode based on D.A. Pennebaker’s 1970 Stephen Sondheim documentary Original Cast Album: Company "creates a window into the weird little alternative version of ’70s Broadway that lives in his head, from the set design, camera lenses, and costumes, to tiny touches like Sondheim’s fiddly fixation with particular pronunciations," says William Hughes. "All that, and it also has to feel simultaneously like a spot-on recreation of a failed musical and be eminently listenable for the audience at home. It’s a tall order, but that’s the particular Documentary Now! alchemy." ALSO: Mulaney on creating his Documentary Now! episode.