Mid-Week Treat: Lookwell

Mid-Week Treat: Lookwell

Jul 02

‘Round these parts, everyone’s taking bets on exactly when LA will completely shut down for the holiday weekend. Will it be today at 4? Tomorrow at noon? Did it already happen?!

Some of you are still stuck behind your desks, though, trying valiantly to squeeze in one last business-related call before CAA activates its automated “frak you and call back later” outgoing message. This is for you.

A pal introduced me to Lookwell a while back. It’s a failed early ’90s pilot from Conan O’Brien and Robert Smigel, starring Adam West. I hadn’t watched it for a bit, but my bro was just discussing the general genius of Adam West the other day and all of a sudden I flashed on it and blurted out, “HAVE YOU SEEN LOOKWELL?! YOU MUST!” Now, these days, I kind of try to avoid “you must read/see/listen to”-type statements, just because they’re kind of annoying and have a tendency to sprout forth from the know-it-all mouths of us geeks on a way-too-regular basis. But in this case, I feel that it’s OK, because Lookwell is totally hilarious. Personally, I think it’s way funnier than Heat Vision and Jack.

My favorite parts are all of Lookwell’s “undercover” disguises and Jason, the sole skeptical acting student. Jason, incidentally, is played by actor and indie filmmaker Todd Field (yes, the Todd Field who made In the Bedroom and Little Children). Somehow, that makes him even more awesome.

Anyway, without further ado…Lookwell! And don’t worry about CAA getting back to you — I’m pretty sure they’ll still be here after July 4.

“Perhaps if you watched a little more television, you’d be better at your job.”