The comedic heights of The Pentaverate are reached in the second or third episode - I don’t care enough to look up which - when Ken plays billiards against a foul-mouthed American over a security fob needed to access the secret society.
At 58, Myers remains fascinated by scatological humor and squeezes out a turd joke every 5 minutes. The remaining cast apart from West and Mazar is weighed down by stage makeup and a godawful script written by 10-year-olds cryogenically frozen since 2002. Ultimately, Myers plays what seems like 15 characters, and they’re all equally terrible. Meanwhile, Myers as Canadian reporter Ken Scarborough works for CACA News and in a desperate effort to save his job interviewing people on the street, joins up with a conspiracy theorist (Myers) to expose the Pentaverate, egged on by an Alex Jones clone (also Myers). When a Pentaverate member is murdered, as his replacement - a criminally wasted Keegan-Michael Key saving the world from climate change - the remaining members (all played by Myers) must discover the traitor in their midst. The Pentaverate are 5 powerful (ie white, old) men who lead an anachronistic organization that rules the world through the secret manipulation of the wealthy and famous. Myers’s story of the world’s only all-powerful secret society led by “nice guys” is heavy on prosthetics, bad accents, and shouting, and short on everything else. For 3 hours I didn’t laugh once, although the corner of my mouth lifted a few times. I’ve now written Pentaverate enough times that I no longer write Pentaverse or Pentatonix by mistake.
Reilly (Lydia West) and Patty (Debi Mazar) are great and deserve better material.ģ.
The gag where Canada is shot in standard definition while America is in HD is mildly amusing.Ģ. It appears Myers learned nothing in the past 14 years, and The Pentaverate is as big a dud as he’s ever made.īut, to be fair, let’s start with all the positives I found in this 6-episode series:ġ. Where to begin? The Pentaverate is Mike Myers’s first major project since 2008’s The Love Guru, and for good reason.
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