Perfect Harmony is an NBC comedy. I recently watched all of season 1 in a big gulp on Hulu.
Bradley Whitford stars as Dr. Arthur Cochran, a famous conductor. He goes to a small town in Kentucky to bury his wife and doesn’t leave. I like Bradley Whitford. He’s done many roles I thought were supportive of women and feminist in nature. In this comedy series, he’s arrogant and entitled. A cosmopolitan sophisticate does not fit into this small town.
Somehow this world famous conductor gets roped into leading the small choir of the church where his wife is buried.
![Anna Camp in Perfect Harmony](https://oldaintdead.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/perfectharmony-1.jpg)
Also starring is Anna Camp as Ginny. She’s is the process of divorcing her husband Wayne (Will Greenberg). He’s a great dad to their kid Cash (Spencer Allport), but a terrible husband.
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Ginny and Wayne are in the choir. Others include Reverend Jax (Rizwan Manji), Dwayne (Geno Segers), Karla (Desi Dennis-Dylan), and Adams Adams (Tymberlee Hill). Adams is Ginny’s boss in the diner where she works.
There are many others in the small town, including those in a bigger, rival church with a huge choir.
The show is family friendly and mostly wholesome. There are no deep undertones or themes. There are a few sex jokes, a few references to not believing in God, but it’s something you could watch with the kids. I thought the comedy bits were reused too often and grew stale by the end of the season.
There was a big effort to have an inclusive cast, but there were no LBGTQ characters.
My favorite episode of the season was Merry Jaxmas, which included a Bollywood Christmas performance by the choir.
The series was created by Lesley Wake. She’s a veteran TV writer, but Perfect Harmony is the first series she created herself. Three of the 10 episodes in season 1 were directed by women: Katie Locke O’Brien and Natalia Anderson.
Hat tip to my friend @redcrew. She suggested this series to me. She thought the characters were a bit like Northern Exposure, which is one of my all time favorite TV shows. I didn’t see a resemblance. What do you think?
![Poster for Perfect Harmony](https://i1.wp.com/oldaintdead.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/perfectharmony-p.jpg?fit=691%2C1024&ssl=1)
Here’s the season 1 trailer.
Perfect Harmony is perfect! If everyone would give it a watch, you’ll agree. Please bring it back!
There’s been no word yet on future seasons, but the show hasn’t had good ratings.