When it comes to TV musical offerings, Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist strikes the perfect chord.
Stan’s new musical dramedy series can best be described as the cool, older sister of the hit series Glee, thanks to the way it reimagines popular songs and uses them to tell a new narrative.
It could also be described as the more humorous cousin of the Oscar-winning movie La La Land thanks to its infectious, toe-tapping musical numbers and famed choreographer Mandy Moore, who, before the series, also taught Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling to dance in La La Land’s most famous scenes.
In Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist, Jane Levy (Suburgatory) plays our titular leading lady Zoey, a coder at a hipster-filled tech startup in San Francisco, run by a brilliant yet slightly terrifying woman named Joan (Gilmore Girls’ Lauren Graham).
When we first meet her, Zoey is in a bit of an anxious state.
Take a look at the trailer for Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist, only on Stan.
She’s up for a management position at work, and despite being one of the most qualified staff members of her otherwise male-filled team, she stumbles badly in the job interview when she’s unable to properly explain her contribution to the company or why she’d make a good leader.