Imagine a workplace comedy set among Peter Pan’s Lost Boys, give it a sizzling rock ‘n’ roll soundtrack, and you’ve got Roadies, Cameron Crowe’s first attempt at a TV series. And, speaking of Lost Boys, welcome back, Mr. Crowe, who seems to have extricated himself from the miasma of inscrutable psychobabble and rock trivia into which he’s been mired the past 15 years or so and produced a show that’s funny, charming, and occasionally wistful.
Roadies takes place on a national tour by a big-name rock group, but the band itself is barely present on-screen. The show is really about the peanut-butter-and-pizza world of the blue-collar grunts who stage the shows, the riggers and electricians and sound-board techs who sleep in the luggage racks of the buses in which they trek from date to date. Television critic Glenn Garvin considers whether we should cheer them on.
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