In addition to the Lopezes, the show is co-written by Steven Levenson ( tick, tick…BOOM!) and directed by Thomas Kail ( Hamilton) the supporting cast includes multiple Tony winners Katie Finneran and Brian Stokes Mitchell. Musical comedy is an increasingly viable TV genre- High School Musical: The Musical: The Series helped launch Olivia Rodrigo, and we’re mere weeks away from a new season of AppleTV+’s Schmigadoon!-but few titles have Up Here’s pedigree. Before long, Lindsay meets Miguel ( Carlos Valdes), someone interesting enough for her to try to ignore her voices…if he can manage to silence his own.
And because the series is adapted from a stage show by the multiple award-winning team of Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Bobby Lopez, those songs are extremely catchy. Because it’s a musical, instead of just speaking all of Lindsay’s negative self-talk, they’re singing it. But because it’s TV, they’re personified as her parents and her worst childhood friend. In Hulu’s new comedy, Lindsay ( Mae Whitman) is plagued by such voices. Insecurity, old wounds, fear of rejection-they’re all voices in our heads, constantly telling us we’re unworthy of love.
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