Aside from the whole “global pandemic” thing, one of 2020’s disappointments was how weak the revival of Reno 911 turned out.

I mean, I’m the same age as most of the cast, so I get how hard it is to return to something a decade later. And it was complicated, selling a show that aggressively mocks venal, lazy, incompetent, and racist cops in the context of everything that happened last year. So perhaps it was doomed to fail.

But as a fan of The State from way back in the day, it still bummed me out. Most of them —particularly Tom Lennon and Robert Garant— are super-successful people who can rest on their laurels, but I was really looking forward to a new Reno after the underwhelming revival of Wet Hot American Summer.

Improv isn’t evergreen, I suppose.