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Review: In 'Miracle Workers,' Steve Buscemi is a slacker God and Daniel Radcliffe is the angel Craig

The limited series "Miracle Workers," which was to begin Tuesday on TBS, adapts creator Simon Rich's 2012 comic novel of Heaven and Earth (but mostly Heaven), "What in God's Name?"

Rich, whose short-story collection "The Last Girlfriend on Earth" was the basis of the surreal FXX rom-com "Man Seeking Woman," was also a famously young staff writer on "Saturday Night Live," president of the Harvard Lampoon and one of Forbes' "30 under 30" in 2013 and 2014.

"What in God's Name?" was well-reviewed as a novel everywhere you would want

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