In the summer of 2016, Showtime premiered what they hoped would be a future flagship series for the network. Helmed by a prolific Academy Award-winning filmmaker going back to his roots. Making a series about working in the touring music scene. In a much similar way to a movie, he made decades prior to great acclaim. Today we're talking about Cameron Crowe’s currently only attempt at a television series Roadies.

Roadies is an ensemble comedy set around the tour of the fictional Staton House band, and the lives of the Road Crew who help keep the production afloat. The series has a large ensemble cast full of established names & up and coming stars including Luke Wilson, Carla Gugino, Rafe Spall, Imogen Poots, Machine Gun Kelly, Keisha Castle Hughes, Ron White, and Luis Guzman just to name a few. Cameron Crowe directs 4/10 episodes including the pilot and the finale. While also writing 6/10

Cameron Crowe was once a filmmaker I deeply admired. His films Jerry Maguire & Almost Famous are two of my all-time favorites. His more recent films on the other hand have been degrading at an alarming rate. Seeming more and more like a filmmaker whose bloom is slowly starting to come off the rose with each film, culminating in his last film Aloha, which was so bad he hasn't made another in 7 years. But when it comes to the 2016 series Roadies (his most recent work to date) it looks like not only is the bloom off the rose it seems there isn't much of a flower left at all.



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