After four time-hopping seasons of costume changes and genre-smashing lunacy, Miracle Workers is no more. TBS has canceled the series, which concluded its fourth and final season, “End Times,” in August, with stars Daniel Radcliffe, Steve Buscemi, and Geraldine Viswanathan getting their Fury Roadon in a postnuclear apocalypse.
Miracle Workers was never a ratings smash, but its star power allowed it to work beyond the bounds of traditional comedies, building high concept upon high concept. Since 2019, the series has presented a different genre each season, reminiscent of the BBC classic Black Adder, so Buscemi played God in one season and Eddie Shitshovler in another. The first season saw Radcliffe and Viswanathan play low-level angels trying to inspire a bored God (Buscemi) to save humanity. Season two took the cast to the Dark Ages, where Radliffe finally got to play the role of Prince Chauncley the Pretty Cool. In the third season, they took to the Oregon Trail, with a western season filled with rivers to be forded. The first two seasons were based on a book and short story by show creator Simon Rich.
We almost didn’t get a fourth season of Miracle Workers. Back in January, during one of Warner Bros. Discovery’s semi-annual content purges, Miracle Workers was removed from the schedule. Many feared that the show was doomed to go the way of the Chad, which is to say, WBD was going to dump another completed television series. Thankfully, better heads prevailed, and the show bowed over the summer.
Miracle Workers became an anomaly on TBS, where it was one of two scripted series on the network. Now, only American Dad! remains, making television a weirdly hostile place for scripted comedy these days. We hate to see it.