DMV: Workplace comedy set in the Department of Motor Vehicles, with Keefe, the guy from "Peacemaker," and a hung archaeologist

  Tony Cavalero, previously Keefe on The Righteous Gemstones, has been promoting his next big project, the CBS/Paramount Plus workplace comedy DMV.  (The Department of Motor Vehicles.)

I'm not sure:

1. Do I really want to watch 23 minutes of endless lines, demands for obscure documents, and nonsensical rules that change from moment to moment?  

2. Keefe was an anomaly.  Otherwise Tony has played only excessively hetero-horny characters.  I don't even know if he's bisexual in real life, or was pretending to fuel viewer speculation about Keefe (some viewers weren't convinced, even after he married Kelvin).  So I doubt that his character will be gay.

But I'll give it a try.  Season 1, Episode 1.

Scene 1: Horror-inducing establishing shot at the DMV.  The main cast give driving tests.

Colette: a dour guy (Maxime LeFebre-Martel) who has a shovel and a woman's shoe in the back seat. She thinks he's a murderer.

Maxime LeFebre-Martel is an IT support technician from Gatineau, Quebec. He has no previous acting credits.  

Old Guy Gregg (Tim Meadows) tests a hoarder with all of her possessions in the back seat, including a ferret who squirts him.

Vic (Tony Cavalero) steers his guy (Hudson Greenough) to  a fast food place and orders "two cheeseburgers, two fries, and two chocolate shakes."  Aww, he's buying lunch.  "And get something for yourself," har har. 

Hudson Greenough has a degree in Classics from the University of Toronto, and works as a teacher during the school year and an archaeologist during the summer.   He has five acting credits on the IMDB, including The Hardy Boys, Deadly Inferno, and Lady Ada's Secret Society.

Left: Cock or prosthetic?  The hair doesn't look quite right.

Scene 2: Colette enters the DVM and thinks the new guy, Hot Noa (Alex Tarrant), is waving at her.  He's not.  She is embarrassed.

Alex Tarrant is a New Zealand-born actor and surfer.  He is straight in real life. 

He is busily dealing with an obnoxious applicant (Mark Feuerstein) who brought an expired passport to get his driver's license renewed, and insults him for not taking it. 

Manager Barbara calls the three driving testers to her cubicle. The good news: She has just been made manager.  The bad news: Today consultants are coming to...um...observe their branch because they are doing such a good job. 

Scene 3: The consultants arrive, the middle-aged Dan (Gerry Dee) and a woman named Kshitija.  Anti-Indian joke about her name being hard to pronounce.   

Big reveal - they're not observing because this branch is so competent.  They're going to choose one of the four Hollywood DMVs to fire all the workers and go automated. Couldn't you just fire the incompetent ones and transfer the others to another branch?

Uh-oh, the elderly lady who gets tested all the time arrives.  The others tell Vic that it's his turn to deal with her, but he complains that they should be assigned test subjects based on their strengths: for instance, he'll take the white entitled, and any teens with hot moms.   Heterosexual identity established at Minute 6.2.  That leaves Gregg and Noa.  

Moving on, the guys suggest that Colette make a move on her crush, Hot Noa, before the Hot Girl gets her claws into him.  

Scene 4: Colette takes the old lady on her driving test. She zooms through cones and into cutouts of people, whil the consultants watch in horror. 

Cut to Hetero-Horny Vic in the break room, crushing potato chips onto his lunch sub (actually Old Guy Gregg's, stolen from the refrigerator).  He suggests to Mean Girl, the DMV's photographer,  that if they're both single at age 40, they get married. Mean Girl is shocked: "Aren't you like 55?"  

Manager Barbara continues to lie that the consultants are observing because they're the best.  

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