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Our Almost Entirely Serious Guide to TV This Fall

Take My Wife's Rhea Butcher and Cameron Esposito weigh in on the new crop of shows. Warning: May contain time travel, remakes, and lightning.
Take My Wife039s Rhea Butcher and Cameron Esposito weigh in on the new crop of shows.
Take My Wife's Rhea Butcher (left) and Cameron Esposito weigh in on the new crop of shows.Ramona Rosales for WIRED

Take My Wife

Ramona Rosales for WIRED

“People complain that everybody gets a show now,” says Rhea Butcher. “What’s wrong with that?” Nothing at all, especially when it means Butcher and Cameron Esposito get to make Take My Wife. Streaming on Seeso, NBC’s on-­demand comedy platform, it’s a sitcom based on their lives as married comics in Los Angeles. They’ve wrapped their first season and are therefore now eminently qualified to critique other people’s work on the fall’s new crop—based solely on the trailers. Warning: Shows may contain more time-travel, movie remakes, and lightning than necessary.

This article appears in the September 2016 issue.

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