Review: YouTube Premium's 'Champaign ILL' mines buddies' downward mobility for laughs
by Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times
Dec 12, 2018
3 minutes
"Champaign ILL," which began streaming Wednesday on YouTube Premium, formerly YouTube Red, is a solidly constructed lost-status comedy about emerging, none too quickly, from a state of arrested development. Adam Pally, whom you may remember from "The Mindy Project" or "Happy Endings," and Sam Richardson (from "Veep" and "Detroiters") are the knuckleheads knocked back overnight from international lives of leisure to ones of involuntary normalcy in the Midwest city that gives the series its name.
In a brief prologue we
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