Hot Air
"We all have a voice. Just be careful how you use it."
A right-wing talk show host's life takes a sudden turn when his 16-year-old niece comes crashing into his life.
Top Cast
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Steve Coogan
Lionel Macomb
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Neve Campbell
Valerie Gannon
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Taylor Russell
Tess
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Skylar Astin
Gareth Whitley
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Judith Light
Judith Montefiore-Salters
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Lawrence Gilliard Jr.
Earl Higgins
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Pico Alexander
Grayson
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Griffin Newman
Tyler
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John Rothman
Kent
Overview
A right-wing talk show host's life takes a sudden turn when his 16-year-old niece comes crashing into his life.
Rating
5.0
/ 10
24 Reviews 1 Popular
1 Reviews
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Sheldon Nylander2 Aug 24, 2019With cookie-cutter characters that stumble and trip their way through a cliched plot (tell me if you've heard this one: Smart and spunky teenager shows up on the doorstep of a stuffy conservative family member and makes them look inward for a better way to be), "Hot Air" is not insightful nor is it even that timely. The characters are not relatable to the point of being reprehensible and feel like they lurch their way along like emotional Frankenstein's monsters in difficult or impossible to believe directions with little tangible and no believable character development. The only character that seems to derive any relatability is the teenage niece, Tess, but even she doesn't demonstrate much depth and can be very irritating. Steve Coogan's long-winded speech near the end seems to come out of nowhere with less provocation than he would have clearly had in the past. Overall, you'll probably feel the same way if you just walk repeatedly into a closed door for a little while futily hoping to get to the other side, and you won't waste 100 minutes doing it.
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