How's this for meta? The comedy "The TV Set," about the making of a television pilot, feels like an actual television pilot -- for a good show. While it doesn't exactly break any new ground about the entertainment industry (hello, "30 Rock"), it has an irresistible absurdist vibe, a dryly observant sense of humor that makes it -- to borrow the vernacular -- must-see.
Writer-director Jake Kasdan (who directed "Orange County" and worked on the cult fave TV series "Freaks and Geeks") gives us hilarious industry scenarios that feel painfully real, if a bit too insider for some. After a series of flops ("Trust the Man,""House of D"), David Duchovny returns to reliable form as likable everyman Mike Klein, a longtime writer trying to get his coming-home dramedy, "The Wexler Chronicles," on the fall schedule.
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