Daniel Radcliffe’s Miracle Workers trailer goes full Mad Max: Fury Road

“In the beginning, there was The Boom,” says Daniel Radcliffe’s faux-Max Rockatansky in the opening seconds of a trailer that is not technically for a Mad Max: Fury RoadSpinoff series but behaves as one. In actuality, it’s the teaser for season 4 of Miracle Workers, TBS’ anthology comedy series that has flown quietly under the radar for years. Maybe a little bit of guzzoline will rev up the popular-hit engine when this series premieres in January.

Once again starring Radcliffe, Geraldine Viswanathan, and Steve Buscemi — who started off playing angels and God himself, respectively, in season 1, but have played a new batch of weirdos with each genre-jumping iteration of the series — The End Times for Miracle Workers picks up in a post-apocalyptic future where a road warrior (Radcliffe) and his warlord pal (Viswanathan), to quote the official summary, “face the most dystopian nightmare of all: settling down in the suburbs.” Joining them are Miracle Workers alumni Jon Bass, as “a faithful war dog,” and Karan Soni, playing a “kill-bot who loves to party.” Delightful.

Miracle Workers Simon Rich (the former) created it. Saturday Night WriterA writer with a vibrant career in short-story writing. Rich adapts his stories for the second season of Miracle WorkersRobert Padnick and Dan Mirk were given the torch for season 3 of the series. They wired it into an updated version. Oregon Trail parody. End Times Mad Max’s riff reveals a healthy dose of corporate cooperation (TBS is an affiliate of Warner Bros. Discovery, which is why the show’s first three seasons are all streaming on HBO Max) but also an avenue for a cavalcade of comedy guest stars. Quinta Brunson and Kyle Mooney will appear this season. Ego Nawodim, Lolly Adefope, Paul F. Tompkins, and Quinta Brunson are also featured.

End TimesRadcliffe embarks on a parody tear as it arrives. It marks the fourth season for his series and follows the success of It’s Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, his relentlessly goofy spoof biopic of “Weird” Al Yankovic. In his post-Harry Potter days, Radcliffe has been all about committing to the bit of weirdo creators — see: the movie in which he played a farting corpse for Everything at Once directors The Daniels, as well as the movie where he had guns for hands — and End TimesIt seems like another way to go all-in is as actor or producer. God bless him.

The End Times for Miracle WorkersTBS premieres the series on January 16.