AIRDATE
Wednesday, July 31 (Hulu)
CAST
Nathalie Emmanuel, Nikesh Patel, Rebecca Rittenhouse, Brandon Mychal Smith, John Reynolds, Zoe Boyle
CREATORS
Mindy Kaling, Matt Warburton
You probably don’t need to be told that a TV series version of the 1994 movie Four Weddings and a Funeral is a bad idea. So it comes as no surprise that said series, more like a distant cousin than a remake or reimagining, is a clumsy mess of predictability, stereotypes, forced drama and saccharine touches. Perhaps Hulu thought, given the often lowered standards when it comes to romantic comedy, that a watered-down take on this beloved property would work.
Mindy Kaling’s love of rom-coms presumably led to her targeting one of the best; the original film, of course, was written by Richard Curtis, who proved…