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Directed by
  
Matt Piedmont

Final episode date
  
6 February 2014

Network
  
IFC

6.9/10
IMDb

69%
Metacritic

Country of origin
  
United States

Genre
  
Comedy

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Created by
  
Matt Piedmont Andrew Steele

Written by
  
Matt Piedmont Andrew Steele

Starring
  
Tobey Maguire Kristen Wiig Tim Robbins Jessica Alba Val Kilmer Haley Joel Osment Michael Sheen Will Ferrell

Theme music composer
  
Andrew Feltenstein John Nau

Cast
  
Kristen Wiig, Jessica Alba, Tobey Maguire

The Spoils of Babylon is an American comedy miniseries written by Matt Piedmont and Andrew Steele, directed by Piedmont, and starring Tobey Maguire, Kristen Wiig, Tim Robbins, Jessica Alba, Val Kilmer, Haley Joel Osment, Michael Sheen, and Will Ferrell. It is intended to be a spoof of the epic-scale "TV event" miniseries adapted from bestselling novels (such as The Thorn Birds and Rich Man, Poor Man) prevalent on American network television in the 1970s and 1980s. The miniseries premiered on IFC on January 9, 2014. For her performance as Cynthia Morehouse, Kristen Wiig was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie.

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Plot

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The entire miniseries is presented as if it had been a real miniseries, with a fictional backstory of how it took three years to film and was originally 22 hours long, and each episode is framed with its author/director Eric Jonrosh sitting in a restaurant discussing it. Patriarch Jonas Morehouse shepherds his daughter Cynthia and adopted son Devon from meager beginnings in the oil fields of Texas to powerful boardrooms in New York City. Cynthia and Devon, entwined in undeniable love, stumble through war-torn battlefields, blazing mansions, filthy drug dens and velvet-sheeted bedrooms on their quest for power and influence. Despite Jonas' best efforts to intervene, Cynthia and Devon's merciless love sets into motion a wave of destruction that crashes down on Devon's graceful wife Lady Anne, his daughter Marianne, his colleague and lover Dixie, Cynthia's hen-pecked husband Chet, her evil son Winston, the scheming Generals and far beyond.

Cast

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  • Will Ferrell as Eric Jonrosh, "Author, Producer, Actor, Writer, Director, Raconteur, Bon Vivant, Legend, Fabulist" of the series. Ferrell as Jonrosh also plays Reza the Shah of Iran in the final episode.
  • Tobey Maguire as Dirk Snowfield as Devon Morehouse, Jonas's adopted son
  • Kristen Wiig as Lauoreighiya Samcake (Jonrosh's ex-wife) as Cynthia Morehouse, Jonas's daughter and Devon's adopted sister.
  • Tim Robbins as Sir Richard Driftwood as Jonas Morehouse, an entrepreneur in the oil industry
  • Val Kilmer as Bobcat Maccaullie as General Cauliffe, a United States Army general
  • Michael Sheen as Christopher Smith as Chet Halner, Cynthia's husband
  • Jessica Alba as Dixie Melonworth as Dixie Melonworth, a marine biologist and Devon's new love interest.
  • Haley Joel Osment as Marty Comanche as Winston Morehouse, Cynthia's evil son
  • David Spade as Joseph Sol as Talc Munson
  • Steve Tom as Rex Muftee as General Maddoxton
  • Jellybean Howie as Gumdrop Howard as Marianne Morehouse
  • Molly Shannon as Odessa Dobson as Meredith Sennheiser
  • Phillip Wampler as Devon Morehouse (Young)
  • Isabella Acres as Cynthia Morehouse (Young)
  • Cal Bartlett as Cyrus Mego
  • Brian Chapman as News Reporter
  • Robert Pike Daniel as Board Member #1
  • Carey Mulligan (voice) as Lady Anne York, Devon Morehouse's mannequin wife
  • Marc Evan Jackson as Bank Man
  • Tony Mirrcandani as Amed
  • Al Rossi as Congressman Wilkes

    • Production

    The miniseries began principal photography on June 2, 2013 in Los Angeles.

    Companion series

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    The series was enough of a success for the network to prompt a second Spoils miniseries, The Spoils Before Dying, which debuted on July 8, 2015.

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    References

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