The Not-Too-Late Show with Elmo

The Not-Too-Late Show with Elmo is a late-night talk show hosted by Sesame Street Muppet Elmo, featuring celebrity guests and musical performers in segments focused on daily wrap-up activities. Cookie Monster and other Muppets join Elmo for games, songs, and memory challenges centered on themes like bath time, pets, or arts and crafts. The show premiered in 2020 on HBO Max with a 13-episode first season and shifted to a game-show format in its second season, emphasizing activities tied to bedtime routines.

The Not-Too-Late Show with Elmo Mini-Review (S1: E10)

The Not-Too-Late Show with Elmo is the Disney Star Wars of children’s educational entertainment. The IP’s new custodians have flayed everything that made the original special and left a lifeless husk of bright colors and loud noises vaguely shaped like Sesame Street in its place.

                   

PARENTAL NOTE

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• With the exception of what’s in the Woke Report below, everything is age-appropriate, if vapid.

WOKE REPORT

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• The obnoxiously performatively homosexual Jonathan van Ness, who coincidentally is the “grooming expert” on Queer Eye, flitters around from scene to scene giving a makeover to another male character while wearing a woman’s pink cashmere sweater and a skirt.
  • van Ness is not merely boisterously gay, but a mentally ill man who believes that he belongs to a non-existent gender. Though at least that’s not mentioned during the program.