This Sunday two new shows featuring time-travel elements will have their series premiere. These series have something else in common, too: a lead actor who is Jewish, or “Jew-ish, ish.”
In Fox’s Making History, Adam Pally, a comedian and the self-professed “Jewish Matthew McConaughey,” plays Dan, a college facilities manager who discovers he can travel to the past with the help of a special duffel bag (yes you read that correctly). He uses the apparatus to visit 18th-century Massachusetts, where he dates Paul Revere’s daughter, among other destinations (Al Capone’s Chicago; Nazi Germany). Historical misadventures ensue.