First, I love the actors' portrayals of Leno and Letterman; they even LOOK authentic! Daniel Roebuck is buried under (or ABOVE) a prominent latex chin, and John Michael Higgins was given that gap-toothed grin. Second, the settings in which the events took place have a naturalistic look to them. The only nit-picking complaint I have is, please don't use a celebrity impressionist (SORRY, Rich Little!) to play Johnny Carson! All I was seeing was deft mimicry; not a three-dimensional portrayal of a mercurial talk-show host. Who would've been better? If the producers wanted a BIG name, use Anthony Hopkins. Well...Rich Little AND Anthony Hopkins have BOTH played President Richard "Tricky Dick" Nixon .... well, it was worth a shot.
Review of The Late Shift
