SPOILER ALERT: This post spoils Episode 2 of Rooster on HBO Max.
Wrestling Steve Carell for the second episode of Bill Lawrence and Matt Tarses’ comedy series Rooster was not on Phil Dunster’s bingo card.
A culmination of tension brewing between Greg Russo (Carell) and Archie Bates (Dunster) — unfaithful husband of Greg’s daughter Katie (Charly Clive) — arrived once Greg heard that Archie’s grad student mistress Sunny (Lauren Tsai) is pregnant after he slept with her and cheated on Katie.
It’s the baby-related piece of news that prompts Greg to angrily storm into Archie’s hotel room with the all-access ladle key to confront Archie. Archie is staying in the same hotel as Greg after Katie accidentally burned his house down starting with setting fire to his first edition copy of Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace.
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